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Cavernous hemangioma of the retina and of the optic disc

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Vascular Tumors and Malformations of the Ocular Fundus

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Cavernous hemangiomas of the retina and the optic disc are rare and some authors have even questionned their existence as a separate entity [11, 37]. They have been considered as localized vascular tumefactions, partly isolated from the normal retinal vascular tree [14, 16], as hamartomas part of a neurophakomatosis with probable autosomal dominant inheritance [15] or even as congenital venous malformations with a growth potential like that of von Hippel’s disease [30]. Up to now, about 80 cases have been published [1–3, 5, 7–21, 23–53]. Cavernous hemangiomas of the retina and of the optic disc are probably congenital non-progressive tumors, which may be part of an oculo-neuro-cutaneous syndrome.

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De Laey, J.J., Hanssens, M. (1990). Cavernous hemangioma of the retina and of the optic disc. In: Vascular Tumors and Malformations of the Ocular Fundus. Monographs in Ophthalmology, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0589-4_4

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