Vascular Tumors and Malformations of the Ocular Fundus

1. Front Matter

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2. Choroidal hemangioma

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   Pages 1-24

3. Retinal angiomatosis — von Hippel-Lindau’s Disease

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4. Capillary Hemangioma of the optic disc

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5. Cavernous hemangioma of the retina and of the optic disc

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6. Congenital arteriovenous communications in the retina

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   Pages 85-99

7. Neurofibromatosis or von Recklinghausen’s disease

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8. Tuberous sclerosis

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9. Congenital Retinal telangiectasis

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10. Idiopathic juxtafoveolar retinal telangiectasis

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    Pages 183-191

11. Coats’ syndrome and retinitis pigmentosa

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    Pages 193-209

12. Presumed acquired retinal angiomatosis (Adult Coats’ disease)

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13. Acquired retinal macroaneurysms

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    Pages 223-241

14. Back Matter

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This report for the Belgian Ophthalmological Society concerns a number of fundus diseases, which most ophthalmologists only rarely encounter. Still it is of importance that they should be able to recognize them, not only because most of these eye diseases are treatable when they are diagnosed early enough, but also because they are sometimes associated with major visceral and neurological problems. The ophthalmologist may be the first practitioner to suspect a von Hippel-Lindau's disease or a neurofibromatosis. He should realize at that moment that his role is not only to treat the eyes but also to advise his patient, refer him to other specialists and consider the genetical implications of his diagnosis. Clinicopathologic correlations are of great importance and we felt that it was necessary to emphasize the histopathological aspect of these diseases. A report has to overview the literature on a specific topic. The literature on vascular tumors of the fundus is extremely vast and even if we tried to be as complete as possible, we must confess that we did not cite every author who published on such cases. A third aspect, which was considered as important, was to provide sufficient clinical and histopathologic examples of the various disease, which are reviewed. We are indebted to a large number of friends who kindly authorized the publication of their material. In particular we wish thank Prof. A. Brini (Strasbourg), Dr. D. de Wolff-Rouendaal (Leiden), Prof. P.

• classification
• differential diagnosis
• eye
• heredity
• histopathology
• macular degeneration
• melanoma
• pathogenesis
• pathology
• radiotherapy
• retina
• skin
• surgery
• uveitis

• Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

  J. J. Laey, M. Hanssens

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