Regression of an asymptomatic choroidal metasta- sis from breast carcinoma following letrozole therapy*
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Regression of Late Onset Choroidal Metastasis from a Breast Carcinoma with Letrozole
We report the case of a 50-year-old woman with a history of diabetes mellitus who underwent left breast lumpectomy and ipsilateral lymphadenectomy in 1994 because of an infiltrating ductal carcinoma. Chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy to the breast and nodal areas were performed. In 2010, in a routine screening for diabetic retinopathy, two choroidal elevated masses above and below the optic...
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OBJECTIVE To report a case of intraocular metastasis from breast carcinoma. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 54-year-old woman diagnosed with multifocal ductal adenocarcinoma, grade III, of the left breast presented with blurred vision of the left eye. Funduscopy under pupil dilation in the left eye revealed a plateau-shaped, yellow choroidal focus measuring 4 optic disc diameters and...
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Secondary deposits from malignant tumours which invade the eye usually appear in the choroid. There are difficulties, however, in assessing the exact incidence of choroidal metastases, which have led to wide variations in quoted figures. Figures from Ophthalmic Clinics range from I: 35,000 cases seen (Payne, I932) to I: I47,000 (Stallard, 1933), but these tend to minimize the overall incidence....
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Case Report Male ultramarine worker, aged 41.-In October, 1943, biopsy from a tumour in the left breast showed a spheroidal-celled carcinoma, and a radical mastectomy with skin grafting was performed followed by deep x-ray therapy. In March, 1951, episcleritis. developed in the left eye; the visual acuity was found to be 6/6 and the episcleritis settled under local treatment. By August, 1951, t...
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Background and Objective: Male breast carcinoma (MBC) is an unusual form of neoplasia, representing 0.7 to 1 percent of all breast cancer cases. Usually, the carcinoma affects patients after the sixth decade. The aim of this study was to evaluate the status of estrogen and progesterone receptors (ER and PR) and prognostic factors (p53 and Her-2/neu) in a series of male patients with breast canc...
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عنوان ژورنال: African Vision and Eye Health
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2410-1516,2413-3183
DOI: 10.4102/aveh.v68i4.165