DR. NEHA MAHESHWARI

DR. SHREYA SHAH, DR. MEHUL SHAH, DR. SANJRI MALHOTRA

Abstract

INTRODUCTION:OCULAR NEOPLASMS ARE BENIGN AND MALIGNANT.CHEMICAL CARCINOGENS,RADIANT ENERGY,ONCOGENIC VIRUSES AND GENES ARE CAPABLE OF ALTERING THE GROWTH OF NORMAL CELLS OF THE OCULAR TISSUES.

METHODS:A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY WAS DONE WITH CREATION OF FORMAT AND RETRIVAL OF DATA FROM EMR AND ANALYSED WITH SPSS 22.DESCRIPTIVE AND CROSS TRBULATION METHOD USED FOR ANALYSES.

RESULTS: OUR COHORT CONSISTED OF 130 EYES WITH MEAN AGE 25.38 YEARS,63(48.5%)FEMALES AND 67(51.5%)MALES,88(67.7%) RURAL AND 42(32.3%) URBAN PATIENTS.55(42.3%) BENIGN AND 75(57.7%) MALIGNANT. 95(73.1%) UNDERWENT SURGICAL INTERVENTION AND 7(5.4%) WERE MEDICALLY TREATED.

CONCLUSION: OUR STUDY DOCUMENTS COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF OCULAR ONCOLOGY IN WESTERN RURAL INDIA,WITH RETINOBLASTOMA AND DERMOID CYST AS MOST COMMON EYE MALIGNANCIES..UNFORTUNATELY LATE PRESENTATION ARE FREQUENT DUE TO ILLITERACY,POOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS AND LACK OF AWARENESS IN RURAL AREAS.