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. 1988 Apr;72(4):286–288. doi: 10.1136/bjo.72.4.286

Radiotherapy in benign orbital disease. I: Complicated ocular angiomas.

P N Plowman 1, A N Harnett 1
PMCID: PMC1041434  PMID: 3378026

Abstract

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.

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