Unusual choroidal mass

Unusual Orange-Colored Choroidal Metastases

PURPOSE To report the clinical and paraclinical features of two patients with orange- colored choroidal metastases in whom the primary cancers have not previously been associated with such lesions. CASE REPORT Orange-colored choroidal lesions were detected on the fundus examination of one patient with metastatic small cell neuroendocrine tumor of the larynx and oropharynx, and in another subj...

Choroidal neurilemmoma--an unusual clinical misdiagnosis.

A case of choroidal neurilemmoma is reported. After a period of clinical observation which included serial fundus photography and fluorescein angiography, during which time active growth was seen, the tumour was thought to be a malignant melanoma, and enucleation was considered the treatment of choice. Subsequent histological study revealed a neurilemmoma. Important points relating to the clini...

An unusual mass in unusual gender

An unusual abdominal mass.

Accepted 20 August 1997 A 78-year old woman presented with pain in her left lower abdomen for three days. She had also noticed an associated swelling in the same area, and a feeling of incomplete evacuation of her bowel. However, there was no nausea, vomiting, change in bowel habits, or rectal bleeding. She was otherwise fit and healthy, apart from mild hypertension for which she was taking ben...

An unusual pulmonary mass.

Accepted 17 April 1996 A 23-year-old woman smoker complained of right-sided chest pain. The patient had no significant personal or family history. She was asymptomatic, and physical examination was unremarkable. Her chest X-ray and thoracic computed tomography (CT) scan are shown in figures 1 and 2. Blood biochemical and haematological examinations were normal, as was abdominal ultrasonography....