COMBINED HAMARTOMA OF THE RETINA AND RPE: AN UNUSUAL CAUSE OF THE DRAGGED DISC APPEARANCE |
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| Authors: | C. ALEX HARPER MB BS GLEN A. GOLE FRACO FRACS |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia;Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia |
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| Abstract: | Combined hamartoma of the retina and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is a rare, benign, congenital fundal lesion which contains a mixture of glial tissue, blood vessels and pigment epithelium. Such turnours are variably pigmented and may be wrongly diagnosed as malignant melanoma or retinoblastoma. We report two cases which were located in the periphery of the fundus and which produced a dragged disc appearance. |
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| Keywords: | retina hamartoma intraocular tumour dragged disc. |
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