A Case of Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma Presenting with Initial Symptom of Visual Disturbance due to Intraocular Metastasis.

Park, Sun Young; Oh, Hyung Jung; Moon, Jin Wook; Kang, Shin Myung; Hahn, Chang Hoon; Park, Moo Suk; Kim, Young Sam; Chang, Joon; Kim, Sung Kyu; Cho, Sang Ho; Kim, Se Kyu

doi:2005.59.1.93

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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2005;59(1):93-96.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.2005.59.1.93 Published online July 1, 2005.

A Case of Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma Presenting with Initial Symptom of Visual Disturbance due to Intraocular Metastasis.

Sun Young Park, Hyung Jung Oh, Jin Wook Moon, Shin Myung Kang, Chang Hoon Hahn, Moo Suk Park, Young Sam Kim, Joon Chang, Sung Kyu Kim, Sang Ho Cho, Se Kyu Kim

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. sekyukim@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr
²Department of Pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
³The Institute of Chest Diseases, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
⁴Brain Korea 21 Project for Medical Sciences, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
⁵Cancer Metastasis Research Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

Intraocular tumors are uncommon and an intraocular metastatic carcinoma is extremely rare. An intraocular metastasis in adults most often originates from the breast or the lung. An intraocular lesion may be the first presentation of cancer and a search should be made to locate the primary tumor. To our knowledge, an intraocular metastasis of a bronchioloaveolar carcinoma has not reported in Korea. We report a case of a bronchioloalveolar carcinoma presenting with the initial symptom of a unilateral visual disturbance due to an intraocular metastasis.

Key Words: Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma, Intraocular metastasis