Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chtourou, I
• Khabir, A
• Benzina, Z
• Bahri, I
• Hajji, D
• Boudawara, T S

Titel

Iris metastatic thyroid follicular carcinoma: a case report

Ist Teil von

• Journal francais d'ophtalmologie, 2006-10, Vol.29 (8), p.e21

Ort / Verlag

France

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Metastatic carcinoma of the iris is rare and accounts for 5-10% of uveal metastasis and 3% of all iris lesions. Breast and lung carcinoma are the primary sites in 90% of patients. We report here the case of a 66-year-old man treated in 1992 for follicular thyroid carcinoma and hospitalized in 1995 for a pink vascularized mass in the iris. At that time, neither local recurrence nor metastasis in other organs was observed. Histopathologic findings were typical of follicular thyroid metastasis carcinoma. The patient had refused adjuvant treatment but was followed up for 23 months after the diagnosis of the iris metastasis. Through this observation and a literature review, we discuss clinicopathological and prognosis aspects of this exceptional location.