EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor:
William Charles Caccamise Sr,MD, Retired Clinical Asst Prof of Ophthal. U.of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry

Category: Retina
Diagnosis: amaurotic cat's eye - retinoblastoma

Image Comments:

This young Indian patient demonstrates a phenomenon first recognized by Georg Beer, Austrian ophthalmologist, 1763- 1821, i.e. the amaurotic cat's eye - amaurotic because it is blind and cat's eye because it shines like a cat's eye in the dark. It is an ominous finding in advanced retinoblastoma.

 

 

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