• Title of article

    Metatatic adenocarcinoma with rupture through the bruch membrane imulating a choroidal melanoma

  • Author/Authors

    Ruell W. Read، نويسنده , , Ronald L. Green، نويسنده , , Naring A. Rao، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2001
  • Pages
    3
  • From page
    943
  • To page
    945
  • Abstract
    PURPOE: To report a cae of adenocarcinoma metatatic to the choroid with rupture through the Bruch membrane, thu, imulating a choroidal melanoma. METHOD: Interventional cae report. Evaluation in a univerity-baed clinic, including a complete eye examination, fluorecein angiography, and ultraonography; oncological evaluation; and eventual enucleation with hitopathological tudy, including immunohitochemical tain. REULT: A 62-year-old Hipanic female preented with viual lo, right eye, of hort duration becaue of a choroidal ma with retinal detachment. Ultraonography howed a dome-haped leion with an eccentric collar-button projection and medium internal reflectivity, which uggeted a choroidal melanoma. Initial ytemic evaluation wa negative. evere pain neceitated enucleation, RE, and hitopathology of the choroidal ma demontrated an adenocarcinoma. Further examination revealed a left, upper lobe, nonmall cell lung carcinoma. CONCLUION: Metatatic choroidal tumor may preent, although rarely, with collar-button configuration.
  • Journal title
    American Journal of Ophthalmology
  • Serial Year
    2001
  • Journal title
    American Journal of Ophthalmology
  • Record number

    623567