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Intraocular reticulum cell sarcoma: A case report and literature review

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A 66-year-old white woman with a confusing spectrum of central nervous system signs and symptoms had a diagnostic enucleation of her blind left eye showing retinal infiltration. Histopathologic examination showed reticulum cell sarcoma involving the retina. The patient died one month later and autopsy revealed diffuse central nervous system reticulum cell sarcoma along with right eye and systemic involvement. A review of the literature indicates intraocular reticulum cell sarcoma to be an apparently uncommon occurrence, although ocular examination may be frequently overlooked.

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    Edward W. Kim, Z. Nicholas Zakov, Daniel M. Albert, Taylor R. Smith & Joseph L. Craft

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Kim, E.W., Zakov, Z.N., Albert, D.M. et al. Intraocular reticulum cell sarcoma: A case report and literature review. Albrecht von Graefes Arch. Klin. Ophthalmol. 209, 167–178 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00414609

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