intraocular metastatic tumors have been increasingly reported in the recent past. unlike choroidal metastasis, metastasis to retina is very rare and so far has been reported in very few case reports only. case presentation : a 56 year-old male who presented with a history of adenocarcinoma of the cecum and underwent lap colectomy for the primary cecal tumor, received adjuvant chemotherapy for a...

  Chloroma or granulocytic sarcoma (GS) is a malignant neoplasm of myeloid lineage that occur in a variety of anatomic sites other than the bone marrow including soft tissue, bone, lymph node, nasal fossa, skin and sometime in the orbit. In the subconjunctiva it is rarely reported. A 4-year-old girl with a history of treated acute myelogenous leukemia was referred to Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehra...

retinoblastoma is the most common intraocular neoplasm in children. glial tumor of the retina and optic nerve head are considered to be congenital and are therefore classified as hamartomas. concurrent occurrence of these tumors in one eye is uncommon and by reviewing the studies, a few cases have been reported. we report a 9 years old boy with eye enucleation and concurrent occurrence of retin...

chloroma or granulocytic sarcoma (gs) is a malignant neoplasm of myeloid lineage that occur in a variety of anatomic sites other than the bone marrow including soft tissue, bone, lymph node, nasal fossa, skin and sometime in the orbit. in the subconjunctiva it is rarely reported. a 4-year-old girl with a history of treated acute myelogenous leukemia was referred to farabi eye hospital, tehran, ...

Intraocular medulloepithelioma of cilliary body is a nonhereditary neoplasm childhood arising from primitive medullary epithelium characterized by cords multi-layered neuroepithelial cells resembling the optic cup. It often present as loss vision, painful eye & leucocoria. Common signs include secondary glaucoma dislocated lens. About half patients undergo surgery before discovery this tumo...

IN the days before successful irradiation of bilateral retinoblastoma, the opportunities for studying the dates of appearance and the rate of growth of multiple islands of this neoplasm occurring in the remaining eye were rare, and indeed could only have occurred either when parental permission for excision of the second eye was refused or in the rare event of spontaneous recovery. The rarity o...

purpose: true neoplasm (adenocarcinoma) of retinal pigment epithelium (rpe) is very rare since it can be misdiagnosed as intraocular malignant melanoma it is of importance to know the clinical and pathologic aspects of this neoplasm. here, we report a case of adenocarcinoma of rpe. methods: case report. results: a 60-year-old man with progressive loss of the vision of the right eye was enucleat...

A case of herpes encephalitis is reported in a patient who had cranial irradiation and high dose steroids for a cerebral neoplasm. Before radiotherapy the patient had had herpetic infections of the skin and eye.

OBJECTIVE To determine the indications and rate of acceptance for destructive eye surgeries at the ophthalmology unit of the Yaoundé Gynaeco-Obstetric and Paediatric Hospital. METHODS A retrospective consecutive case series in which the medical records of all patients consulting in this unit over a 9-year period (2002 to 2010) were reviewed. Records in which destructive surgery was recommende...