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Record W4408307938 · doi:10.1002/ped4.12472

Retinoma: An overview

2025· review· en· W4408307938 on OpenAlexaff
Panagiotis Toumasis, Ashwin Mallipatna, Timothy W. Corson, Helen Dimaras

Bibliographic record

VenuePediatric Investigation · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicOcular Oncology and Treatments
Canadian institutionsInstitute for Clinical Evaluative SciencesCentre for Global Health ResearchHospital for Sick ChildrenPublic Health OntarioUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRetinoblastomaMalignant transformationCarcinogenesisCancer researchEpigeneticsBiologyRetinalSenescenceMicrosatellite instabilityDownregulation and upregulationPathologyCancerGeneBioinformaticsMedicineGeneticsOphthalmology

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Retinoma, also referred to as retinocytoma, is a benign manifestation of biallelic retinoblastoma gene ( RB1 ) inactivation. Genetic or epigenetic loss of retinoblastoma protein in maturing cone precursors induces genomic instability which leads to upregulation of senescence‐associated p16 INK4a and p130, resulting in non‐proliferative retinoma. When senescence pathways fail and genetic instability accumulates to a critical level through altered gene copies of oncogenes and tumor suppression genes, transformation into RB1 −/‐ retinoblastoma occurs. Thus, the management of retinoma involves frequent ophthalmic examination and imaging to monitor the size and characteristics of the tumor, ensure stability, and rule out malignant transformation. Key ophthalmoscopic features of retinoma often include a translucent whitish‐gray retinal mass, calcification, retinal pigment epithelial alterations with well‐defined margins, located typically around the lesion, as well as a zone of chorioretinal atrophy. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of this non‐malignant tumor drawing from current understanding of its molecular genetics, clinical characteristics, diagnostic modalities, differential diagnosis, management, and prognosis. A deeper understanding of retinoma could offer valuable insights into how retinoblastoma develops and oncogenesis more broadly, paving the way for improved strategies to prevent and treat this malignant tumor.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.976
Threshold uncertainty score0.990

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.108
GPT teacher head0.399
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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".

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