众所周知，医学英文词汇是出了名的难写又难记，通常是由几个词根和词缀相连所构成。据小编所知，主流英文字典所收录最长的英文单词由45个字母构成，即“矽肺病”（心疼呼吸科和胸外科的小伙伴），并非本期重点，不再赘述，请自行百度。眼科学中涉及的单词则相对单纯，但仍有一些让人十分头疼，不仅英文拼写相似，中文解释也容易混淆，这期小编向大家介绍3个E开头单词，从下面这个病例说起：
Retinoblastoma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of an intraocular mass in adults, especially when media haziness precludes adequate ophthalmoscopic visualization. Here we present an adult retinoblastoma case who was misdiagnosed as melanoma in fine-needle aspiration biopsy with intravitreal hemorrhage and later neovascular glaucoma after biopsy. The diagnosis of retinoblastoma was confirmed after
enucleation
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J Ophthalmic Vis Res. 2014 Jul-Sep; 9(3): 388–391. doi: 10.4103/2008-322X.143382
