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- Title
A multimodal approach to the treatment of bilateral choroidal metastases from thyroid carcinoma.
- Authors
Fabrini, Maria Grazia; Genovesi-Ebert, Federica; Perrone, Franco; De Liguoro, Mario; Giovannetti, Clara; Bogazzi, Fausto; Rizzo, Stanislao; Martino, Enio; Cionini, Luca
- Abstract
A 58-year old man, affected by metastatic thyroid carcinoma, experienced a progressive bilateral visual impairment. Ophthalmic examination revealed the presence of a choroidal mass with an associated exudative retinal detachment in both eyes. Twelve years before, a diagnosis of metastatic thyroid carcinoma had been established and the patient had been subject to several therapeutic procedures. In May 2007, he received a radiotherapy treatment to the left eye with an episcleral plaque and bilateral bulbar injection of bevacizumab. The patient had a rapid and stable visual acuity recovery. Twenty months after treatment, the lesion treated with radiotherapy was still stable whereas the contra-lateral lesion had evolved and determined a vitreal hemorrhage.
- Subjects
TREATMENT of eye diseases; RADIOTHERAPY; BEVACIZUMAB; VISUAL acuity; THYROID cancer
- Publication
Rare Tumors, 2009, Vol 1, p9
- ISSN
2036-3605
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.4081/rt.2009.e4