title: [Choroid metastasis of testicular primary site: case report].
abstract: Description of a male patient case, 22 years old, presenting visual acuity decrease in the left eye associated with the diagnosis of metastatic testicular tumor to lung and kidney. Evaluation of the evolution of a choroid lesion compatible with ocular metastasis of testis tumor through ophthalmologic and echographic examinations. There was resolution of the intraocular lesion together with lung radiologic improvement after chemotherapy during approximately 4 months of follow-up. In spite of the remission of the ocular lesion, the patient died due to complications of cerebral metastasis. Approached in the literature as rare, no report was found of a case of choroidal metastasis of a testicular site, this being, perhaps, its first description.
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Oftalmologia, Hospital São Julião, Rua 15 de Novembro 574, Campo Grande, MS, CEP 70002-140, Brazil. mrpiccinin@yahoo.com.br
authors.forename: Marcos Rogério Mistro
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Piccinin
authors.forename: João Augusto de
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.forename: Ricardo Dutra
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Aydos
authors.forename: Daniel Cruz
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Nogueira
authors.forename: Reinaldo Ferreira da
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Silva
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D008297:Male; D018239:Seminoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy; D014463:Ultrasonography