Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Turk Pediatri Arsivi, cilt.41, sa.1, ss.41-45, 2006 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus, TRDizin)
Objective: The objective of this study is to analyse the patients with eye mass who were admitted to our clinic in a period of 20 years to classify both benign and malignant orbital or ocular tumors and to inform the pediatricians about the outcome of our analysis. Material and Method: The records of 315 patients applied or referred to our pediatric hematology-oncology department with eye mass between January1985 and December 2004 were reviewed. The sex distribution, the involvement site and the age at dignosis were analysed. Results: 156 (49.5%) patients were males while 159 (50.5%) were females. 151 of the masses involved the left eye (47.9%) while 147 of them (46.7%) were at the right side and 17 (5.4%) involved both eyes. The age at diagnosis range ed between 1 and 192 months. The median age at diagnosis was 25 months. 282 (89.6%) of the cases had orbital tumors, 22 (6.9%) cases had ocular surface tumors and 11 (3.5%) had intraocular tumors. Conclusions: Pediatricians should notice the signs and symptoms of pediatric ocular and orbital tumors while examining their patients. We would like to emphasize the importance of noticing the signs and symptoms of pediatric ocular and orbital tumors and vitality of referring patients to ophtalmologist in time.