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- Title
Choroidal metastasis of renal cell carcinoma: A case report.
- Authors
Kurashige, Yumiko; Otani, Atsushi; Yoshimura, Nagahisa
- Abstract
The article reports on the case of a Japanese man with choroidal metastasis of renal clear cell carcinoma of the left kidney who had undergone nephrectomy two years earlier. The patient was treated with oral sorafenib but developed visual acuity decline oculus sinister (OS) after several months of use. Result of computed tomography showed a choroidal tumor which was diagnosed as scleral invasion by the tumor and excluded extrascleral invasion. Treatment by enucleation in conjunction with further administration of sorafenib proved to be effective.
- Subjects
CHOROID diseases; METASTASIS; TUMORS; CANCER cells; RENAL cancer; ANTINEOPLASTIC agents
- Publication
Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology, 2010, Vol 54, Issue 1, p111
- ISSN
0021-5155
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10384-009-0764-6