DR.ISHA SHARMA

DR.DAS GOPAL KRUSHNA, DR.PRAMOD KUMAR SAHU, DR. ANKUR SINGH

Abstract

A 6-month-old female child was referred to ophthalmology department for redness and watering along with clouding of cornea noticed for 2 weeks. The child underwent routine investigations for examination under anaesthesia which could not be performed due to active upper respiratory tract infection. The child was subjected to an ultrasound B scan which was suggestive of a high amplitude hyperechogenic lesion filling the vitreous cavity in the right eye and a deformed globe with a high amplitude hyperreflective lesion in the left eye which led to a suspicion of a bilateral retinoblastoma. The child was then subjected to a CECT Brain and Orbit to confirm the diagnosis which was suggestive of bilateral retinoblastoma with phthisis of the left eye with no extraocular extension.

Thus, any pathology in a child should be looked upon with high suspicion as retinoblastoma may manifest itself in various ways and all the children must be subjected to a posterior segment evaluation.