Ophthalmological aspects of metastatic neuroblastoma: Report of 22 consecutive cases

Abstract

A review of 22 consecutive cases with ophthalmologic manifestations of neuroblastoma is reported. These cases constitute 27.5% of 80 neuroblastoma patients managed during a 21 -year period at the American University of Beirut, Medical Center. Nineteen of these patients had orbital metastases and one had Horner's syndrome. Analysis of the data support the findings reported by others, indicating that the clinical course of the disease in the Middle-East is not different from that noted in the western world.

Key Words:

• neuroblastoma
• orbital metastases
• Middle-East