PHILADELPHIA — Multimodal imaging can assist in detecting intraocular tumors that cannot be seen with ophthalmoscopy, according to a speaker at the Wills Eye Conference.
“We call these invisible intraocular tumors ‘ghost’ tumors because they are impossible to see with ophthalmoscopy but visible with multimodal imaging,” Jerry A. Shields, MD, said.
Between 1% and 2% of eyes with retinoblastoma, retinal hemangioblastoma and retinal astrocytic hamartoma have subclinical ghost tumors. Shields discussed seven examples in which the fundus appeared normal, but multimodal
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