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C Gailloud

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Radial asymmetry in the topography of retinoblastoma. Clues to the cell of origin.

Retinoblastoma is a malignancy of the human developing retina. In situ as well as in vitro studies have attributed tumoral histogenesis either to a primitive retinoblast with neuronal and glial differentiation potentials, or to a photosensory progenitor cell. Here it is shown in vivo that the retinal topography of 457 retinoblastoma and retinoma foci is radially asymmetrical. Tumor density appears to mimic the horizontal visual streak characteristic of red/green cone cell distribution. Such a non-random distribution seems to invalidate the hypothesis of a primitive multipotential neuroblast as the unique source of retinoblastoma and may support the view that retinoblastoma evolves along the cone cell lineage.

Eye Neoplasms↗

[Irradiation of the rabbit ciliary body by an accelerated proton beam].

Rabbit ciliary body has been irradiated by accelerated proton beam. 24 animals have received on 20 and 40% of the total surface of ciliary body 45 and 60 Gy. We could confirm the very good precision of proton beam irradiation. No complication was noticed on slit lamp examination. The light microscope examination revealed haemorrhages, lymphocytes, plasma cells and histiocytes infiltration, late fibrosis and severe capillary alterations. The electron microscope examination showed a frank difference of radiosensitivity of the epithelial layers and a presumed partial rupture of the blood-aqueous barrier.

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