title: [Eye complaints indicative of a tumor elsewhere in the body].
abstract: A variety of clinical presentations of malignant tumour metastases outside of the eye and orbit, were seen in four patients: a 52-year-old man who was scheduled to have a surgical removal of an oesophageal carcinoma and who presented with retinal detachment, a 58-year-old woman in whom retinopathy was the first sign of a cervical carcinoma (cancer-associated retinopathy), a 71-year-old man who had been treated for colon carcinoma and who presented with an orbital mass, and finally a 67-year-old woman with an orbital mass as the first sign of a Grawitz tumour. Metastasis should be considered in patients with a history of malignancy, who present with ophthalmologic complaints. Further it should be borne in mind that eye problems can be the first sign of oncological disease outside the eye.
authors.affiliation: Afd. Oogheelkunde, Academisch Medisch Centrum/Universiteit van Amsterdam, Postbus 22.660, 1100 DD Amsterdam.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marinkovic
authors.forename: J J B
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: van Lanschot
authors.forename: R O
authors.initials: RO
authors.lastname: Schlingemann
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: de Smet
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Saeed
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000473:pathology; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000209:etiology; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology