Choroidal metastasis from lung adenocarcinoma: a rare case report
Porrello, C.; Gullo, R.; Gagliardo, C.M.; Vaglica, A.; Palazzolo, M.; Giangregorio, F.; Iadicola, D.; Profita, G.; Lo Faso, F.; Tomasello, G.; Carini, F.; Cocorullo, G.
Il Giornale di Chirurgia 40(2): 137-140
2019
ISSN/ISBN: 0391-9005 PMID: 31131814 Document Number: 697915
The choroid is the most common site for intraocular metastatic di sease. Orbital metastasis as metastatic site of lung adenocarcinoma is very rare and in literature a very exiguous number of cases is present. This is a case report of a woman with history of lung adenocarcinoma and, after surgery, detection of a choroidal mass described as lung metastasis, responding to Gefinitib therapy. However a biopsy was not performed. After two years there was a great dimension decrement of the lung metastasis but she is still suffering from recurrent pleural effusion, with pleural thickenings biopsied and diagnosed as recurrences of disease.