Choroidal eye metastases from (recurrent) primary peritoneal carcinoma: case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: Choroidal metastases from gynaecological primary are extremely rare. There is no documented case in the literature of choroid metastasis in a patient with primary peritoneal carcinoma (PPC). METHODS & RESULTS: We describe the first case of a 54-year-old woman with a history of border...

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Autores principales: Thomakos, Nikolaos, Galaal, Khandra, Georgopoulos, Georgios, Nagaraju, Lakshmi, Hemming, Dianne, Naik, Raj
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19154601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-6-3
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author Thomakos, Nikolaos
Galaal, Khandra
Georgopoulos, Georgios
Nagaraju, Lakshmi
Hemming, Dianne
Naik, Raj
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Galaal, Khandra
Georgopoulos, Georgios
Nagaraju, Lakshmi
Hemming, Dianne
Naik, Raj
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description BACKGROUND: Choroidal metastases from gynaecological primary are extremely rare. There is no documented case in the literature of choroid metastasis in a patient with primary peritoneal carcinoma (PPC). METHODS & RESULTS: We describe the first case of a 54-year-old woman with a history of borderline mucinous tumour who presented 17 months later with PPC and 21 months after with recurrent disease metastatic to the eye, and review pertinent literature. CONCLUSION: High index of suspicion is warranted when patients with history of primary peritoneal carcinoma present with visual complaints in order to treat and/or relieve symptomatology from metastatic eye disease.
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spelling pubmed-26332732009-01-31 Choroidal eye metastases from (recurrent) primary peritoneal carcinoma: case report and review of the literature Thomakos, Nikolaos Galaal, Khandra Georgopoulos, Georgios Nagaraju, Lakshmi Hemming, Dianne Naik, Raj Int Semin Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Choroidal metastases from gynaecological primary are extremely rare. There is no documented case in the literature of choroid metastasis in a patient with primary peritoneal carcinoma (PPC). METHODS & RESULTS: We describe the first case of a 54-year-old woman with a history of borderline mucinous tumour who presented 17 months later with PPC and 21 months after with recurrent disease metastatic to the eye, and review pertinent literature. CONCLUSION: High index of suspicion is warranted when patients with history of primary peritoneal carcinoma present with visual complaints in order to treat and/or relieve symptomatology from metastatic eye disease. BioMed Central 2009-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2633273/ /pubmed/19154601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-6-3 Text en Copyright © 2009 Thomakos et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Thomakos, Nikolaos
Galaal, Khandra
Georgopoulos, Georgios
Nagaraju, Lakshmi
Hemming, Dianne
Naik, Raj
Choroidal eye metastases from (recurrent) primary peritoneal carcinoma: case report and review of the literature
title Choroidal eye metastases from (recurrent) primary peritoneal carcinoma: case report and review of the literature
title_full Choroidal eye metastases from (recurrent) primary peritoneal carcinoma: case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Choroidal eye metastases from (recurrent) primary peritoneal carcinoma: case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Choroidal eye metastases from (recurrent) primary peritoneal carcinoma: case report and review of the literature
title_short Choroidal eye metastases from (recurrent) primary peritoneal carcinoma: case report and review of the literature
title_sort choroidal eye metastases from (recurrent) primary peritoneal carcinoma: case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19154601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-6-3
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