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Paraneoplastic retinopathy is a syndrome where one’s immune system response to a tumor leads to generation of antibodies to the tumor antigen that cross-reacts with retinal proteins. These autoantibodies to the retina lead to rod and cone photoreceptor dysfunction. There are several classifications of paraneoplastic retinopathies; we discuss the three most common types carcinoma-associated retinopathy, melanoma-associated retinopathy, and bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation.
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Shah, V.S. (2016). Paraneoplastic Retinopathy. In: Medina, C., Townsend, J., Singh, A. (eds) Manual of Retinal Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20460-4_28
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