title: [Choroid metastases].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the present study is to investigate the clinical features and the risk factors characteristic of choroidal metastasis, which is known as the most common malignant neoplasm of the adult eye.
  
  
  METHODS
  A systematic ophthalmologic examination together with angiography and echography were performed in 106 patients with carcinoma.
  
  
  RESULTS
  10% of patients showed choroïdal metastasis. Breast and bronchogenic carcinoma were the most common primary tumor. 82% of cases died within a mean 6.5 months. Clinical, angiographic, echographic and histopathologic features of such metastasis were described.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The importance of an early diagnosis of such metastasis are raised.
authors.affiliation: Institut Hedi-Rais d'Ophtalmologie de Tunis, Tunisie.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jeddi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bouguila
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mezlini
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Daghfous
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kaoueche
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ben Ayed
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ayed
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D018567:Breast Neoplasms, Male / Q000473:pathology; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000473:pathology; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D010610:Pharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D011379:Prognosis; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: Les métastases choroïdiennes.