Adenocarcinoma of the Retinal Pigment Epithelium Arising in Conjunction with Late Recurrence and Systemic Metastasis of Retinoblastoma
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1974, an 8-month-old male was diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma. His left eye was enucleated, while the right eye was salvaged with a combination of external beam radiotherapy (4,000 cGy total, divided in 20 fractions) and retinal laser treatment. Thirty-nine years later, he developed intraocular recurrence of retinoblastoma with extrascleral spread. Histopathological examination also identified a second distinct malignancy, retinal pigment epithelium adenocarcinoma, arising in continuity with the retinoblastoma. Further investigation revealed foci of metastatic retinoblastoma in his parotid gland. He was subsequently treated with a combination of orbital exenteration, extensive neck dissection, and resection of metastatic foci, followed by a high-dose ablative chemotherapeutic regimen consisting of cisplatin, vincristine, and cyclophosphamide. Although very rare, late recurrence of retinoblastoma with systemic metastasis is possible, and continued clinical observation and appropriate long-term follow-up should be considered. Additionally, it is important to consider a second primary intraocular tumor in the differential diagnosis, especially in a patient with heritable retinoblastoma who has undergone radiation therapy.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".