Review Article

Vitreous Diagnosis in Neoplastic Diseases

Table 1

Ophthalmic diseases masquerading as chronic idiopathic uveitis.

Malignant diseases

Intraocular lymphoma
 Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the central nervous system
 (NHL-CNS)
 Systemic Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma metastatic to eye
 Hodgkin's lymphoma
 Other lymphomas
Lymphoid hyperplasia of uvea
Leukemia
Carcinoma metastatic to the eye
Uveal melanoma
Childhood malignancies
 Retinoblastoma
 Coats' disease
 Leukemia
 Medulloepithelioma
 Juvenile xanthogranuloma
Paraneoplastic syndromes
 Cancer-associated retinopathy
 Melanoma-associated retinopathy
 Bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation

Nonmalignant diseases

Multiple sclerosis
Intraocular foreign body
Vascular disorders (hypertension, diabetic retinopathy, radiation retinopathy, retinal vasculitis, branch/central vein occlusion, ocular ischemic syndrome)
Retinal detachment
Vitreous and retinal degenerations (myopic, tapetoretinal)
Pigment dispersion syndrome
Intraocular infections (bacterial, fungal, viral, parasitic, propionibacterium acnes)
Postvaccination and drug-related reactions