title: [Iris metastatic thyroid follicular carcinoma: a case report].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, CHU Habib Bourguiba, Sfax, Tunisie.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Chtourou
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khabir
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Benzina
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bahri
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hajji
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Boudawara
mesh_terms: D018263:Adenocarcinoma, Follicular / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D015811:Iris Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*