title: [Retinoblastoma--clinical diagnostic errors].
abstract: The author discusses clinical and histological findings in 6 patients whose complaints had been wrongly diagnosed, out of 91 patients in whom a retinoblastoma had been diagnosed at the ophthalmo-pathological laboratory of the University Eye hospital in Utrecht between 1960 and 1981. In 6 other cases the diagnosis was doubtful. All the cases occurred before 1974. The faulty diagnoses were: spontaneously necrotized retinoblastoma, congenital anomaly, retinal detachment, infection with toxocara canis, sarcoidosis, and angiomatosis retinae. Three patients are still living. If the diagnosis is not certain a blind eye should be removed without delay.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005123:Eye / Q000473:pathology; D005134:Eye Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009900:Optic Nerve / Q000473:pathology; D012175:Retinoblastoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary
vernacular_title: Retinoblastom--klinische fehldiagnosen.