High on the list of cancer in children. “The white reflection should be concerned”
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Eye flash in the picture? Sometimes ordinary photography from a family album can be proof of a tumor developing in the child's eyeball. – a symptom of a white pupil should be concerned. We can not talk about “physiological strabismus” in young children, always check, examining the bottom of the eyes with a widened pupil, the cause of the strabismus – says ophthalmologist Bożena Romanowska -Dixon, head of the Department of Ophthalmology of the Collegium Medicum of the Jagiellonian University.
- Children are most commonly suffered by retinacles, malignant eyeball tumors. These are usually genetically conditioned cancers.
- Eyeball cancer is usually metastasis from the original tumor, which should be located in a clinical interview.
- What should be worried? The flare in the eye in the picture, staring at the eye, pain.
- Eye tumors are characterized by high mortality. Why?
- And why do men decide on the artificial eye more often?
Iga Children: – I recently read about the history of a photo. The mother uploaded a photograph on Facebook with her son. Seemingly it was an ordinary photo from a family album. One of the commentators drew attention to the flare in the child's eye and advised to check it at the ophthalmologist. She probably saved the boy's health and life in this way, it turned out that cancer was developing in the eye. Why can you see the tumor in the photo?
Dr. Sciences, MD, Bożena Romanowska-Dixon, ophthalmologist, head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Collegium Medicum UJ: – white reflexes from the pupil or both pupils, i.e. leukocoria, in the case of a bilateral volleyball, is usually visible by accident or sometimes in photos taken with a flash (photoukocoria). This symptom occurs as a result of the pupil mass translucent. It is usually present in tumors growing in the back of the eye and in the case of large tumors visible behind the lens.
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