A Case of Proliferative Leukemic Retinopathy
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A 23year old man presented with complaints of defective vision in his left eye (LE) for the past 15 days. He was a known case of Pre-B cell lymphocytic leukemia on treatment. On examination there was mobile streak hypopyon in his left eye, leukemic optic nerve head infiltration in both eyes and proliferative retinopathy in both eyes. Patient was referred back to oncologist for bilateral radiotherapy and subsequent intrathecal chemotherapy. Pan retinal photocoagulation was done after two and a half months in both eyes. By this case report we would like to attract notice that clinicians should suspect leukemia in an otherwise young healthy patient presenting with ischemic retinopathy.
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