Blurred vision due to choroidal metastasis as the first manifestation of lung cancer: A case report

BACKGROUND: Reduction in visual acuity combined with blurred vision is rarely the first sign of lung cancer and very few cases have been announced globally. CASE PRESENTATION: A case of a 46-year-old man who admitted with blurred vision is presented. His medical history, apart from a mild gastritis...

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Autores principales: Asteriou, Christos, Konstantinou, Dimitrios, Kleontas, Athanassios, Paliouras, Dimitrios, Samanidis, Georgios, Papadopoulou, Fani, Barbetakis, Nikolaos
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2817644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20064203
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-8-2
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author Asteriou, Christos
Konstantinou, Dimitrios
Kleontas, Athanassios
Paliouras, Dimitrios
Samanidis, Georgios
Papadopoulou, Fani
Barbetakis, Nikolaos
author_facet Asteriou, Christos
Konstantinou, Dimitrios
Kleontas, Athanassios
Paliouras, Dimitrios
Samanidis, Georgios
Papadopoulou, Fani
Barbetakis, Nikolaos
author_sort Asteriou, Christos
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description BACKGROUND: Reduction in visual acuity combined with blurred vision is rarely the first sign of lung cancer and very few cases have been announced globally. CASE PRESENTATION: A case of a 46-year-old man who admitted with blurred vision is presented. His medical history, apart from a mild gastritis under treatment was negative. Ocular examination revealed a decrease in visual acuity due to a choroidal tumor. Further image body scans demonstrated a right lung lesion with dissemination to other organs. Diagnosis of a non-small cell lung cancer established after a VATS biopsy carried out. CONCLUSION: Blurred vision due to choroidal metastasis as the primary symptom of lung cancer is very uncommon. A great index of suspicion is essential when a choroidal lesion appears.
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spelling pubmed-28176442010-02-09 Blurred vision due to choroidal metastasis as the first manifestation of lung cancer: A case report Asteriou, Christos Konstantinou, Dimitrios Kleontas, Athanassios Paliouras, Dimitrios Samanidis, Georgios Papadopoulou, Fani Barbetakis, Nikolaos World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Reduction in visual acuity combined with blurred vision is rarely the first sign of lung cancer and very few cases have been announced globally. CASE PRESENTATION: A case of a 46-year-old man who admitted with blurred vision is presented. His medical history, apart from a mild gastritis under treatment was negative. Ocular examination revealed a decrease in visual acuity due to a choroidal tumor. Further image body scans demonstrated a right lung lesion with dissemination to other organs. Diagnosis of a non-small cell lung cancer established after a VATS biopsy carried out. CONCLUSION: Blurred vision due to choroidal metastasis as the primary symptom of lung cancer is very uncommon. A great index of suspicion is essential when a choroidal lesion appears. BioMed Central 2010-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2817644/ /pubmed/20064203 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-8-2 Text en Copyright ©2010 Asteriou 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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Asteriou, Christos
Konstantinou, Dimitrios
Kleontas, Athanassios
Paliouras, Dimitrios
Samanidis, Georgios
Papadopoulou, Fani
Barbetakis, Nikolaos
Blurred vision due to choroidal metastasis as the first manifestation of lung cancer: A case report
title Blurred vision due to choroidal metastasis as the first manifestation of lung cancer: A case report
title_full Blurred vision due to choroidal metastasis as the first manifestation of lung cancer: A case report
title_fullStr Blurred vision due to choroidal metastasis as the first manifestation of lung cancer: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Blurred vision due to choroidal metastasis as the first manifestation of lung cancer: A case report
title_short Blurred vision due to choroidal metastasis as the first manifestation of lung cancer: A case report
title_sort blurred vision due to choroidal metastasis as the first manifestation of lung cancer: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2817644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20064203
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-8-2
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