A Rare Case of Bilateral Orbital Metastases From Rectal Adenocarcinoma

Colorectal carcinoma is among the commonest malignancies in the World. However, metastases from rectal carcinomas to the orbit are extremely rare. Only a few such cases have been reported in the literature till date. We report a case of adenocarcinoma of the rectum in a 27-year-old male with bilater...

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Autores principales: Khan, Quratulain, Farooq, Hira, Ziad, Alishbah, Rehman, Anis, Siddique, Kashif
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9634852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36348904
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29936
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author Khan, Quratulain
Farooq, Hira
Ziad, Alishbah
Rehman, Anis
Siddique, Kashif
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description Colorectal carcinoma is among the commonest malignancies in the World. However, metastases from rectal carcinomas to the orbit are extremely rare. Only a few such cases have been reported in the literature till date. We report a case of adenocarcinoma of the rectum in a 27-year-old male with bilateral orbital metastases who is currently undergoing palliative radiotherapy. Our aim is to highlight the role of imaging in the diagnosis and management of orbital metastatic disease.
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spelling pubmed-96348522022-11-07 A Rare Case of Bilateral Orbital Metastases From Rectal Adenocarcinoma Khan, Quratulain Farooq, Hira Ziad, Alishbah Rehman, Anis Siddique, Kashif Cureus Radiology Colorectal carcinoma is among the commonest malignancies in the World. However, metastases from rectal carcinomas to the orbit are extremely rare. Only a few such cases have been reported in the literature till date. We report a case of adenocarcinoma of the rectum in a 27-year-old male with bilateral orbital metastases who is currently undergoing palliative radiotherapy. Our aim is to highlight the role of imaging in the diagnosis and management of orbital metastatic disease. Cureus 2022-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9634852/ /pubmed/36348904 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29936 Text en Copyright © 2022, Khan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Khan, Quratulain
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Ziad, Alishbah
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A Rare Case of Bilateral Orbital Metastases From Rectal Adenocarcinoma
title A Rare Case of Bilateral Orbital Metastases From Rectal Adenocarcinoma
title_full A Rare Case of Bilateral Orbital Metastases From Rectal Adenocarcinoma
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Bilateral Orbital Metastases From Rectal Adenocarcinoma
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Bilateral Orbital Metastases From Rectal Adenocarcinoma
title_short A Rare Case of Bilateral Orbital Metastases From Rectal Adenocarcinoma
title_sort rare case of bilateral orbital metastases from rectal adenocarcinoma
topic Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9634852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36348904
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29936
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