Radiotherapy in benign orbital disease. I: Complicated ocular angiomas.
Radiotherapy has been successful in the management of complicated ocular and orbital angiomas, but late morbidity (particularly radiation induced cataract) has been a problem. With modern radiotherapy techniques it is possible to minimise the morbidity to other tissues. By means of a recently developed method of lens-sparing ocular radiotherapy (initially adopted for retinoblastoma therapy) two cases of diffuse ocular haemangioma complicated by retinal detachment have been treated, with evidence of regression.
Plowman
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Department of Radiotherapy, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
Harnett
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000150:complications / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006801:Humans; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000150:complications