Objective: To investigate the misdiagnosis rate in enucleated eyes for retinoblastoma (RB), analyze the clinicopathological features and summarize differential diagnosis. Methods: Retrospective analysis was performed on 563 cases (577 eye) undergoing eyeball enucleation in Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center Sun Yat-sen University since 2003. Misdiagnosed cases were screened out by comparing the preoperative clinical diagnosis and postoperative pathological diagnosis. The clinical and pathological features of those misdiagnosed caseswere summarized, including age, gender, therapeutic process, imagological examination, pathological stage and pathological diagnosis. Results: Twenty-two cases had been misdiagnosed, which account for 3.91% of 563 enucleated eyeball cases. All of misdiagnosed cases had underwent monocular eyeball enucleation. Diseases that were easily misdiagnosed with RB were Coats disease (12/22), endophthalmitis (5/22) and other intraocular tumor (5/22). Among all patients, 55 patients were older than 4 years old, of which 12 cases were misdiagnosed,with a misdiagnosis rate of 21.82%. Conclusion: It is not unusual for clinical misdiagnosis of RB. Coats disease is the most frequent cause of RB misdiagnosis. Misdiagnosis rates is higher in patients over 4 years old.