[Teletherapy ocular complications. A clinical case].
METHODS
An 82-year-old pseudophakic male patient developed several ocular complications after teletherapy for cavum carcinoma. Three years after receiving the radiotherapy, he presented with a right optic neuritis with some posterior improvement. Five years later he developed an ischemic retinopathy and a severe dry eye syndrome.


CONCLUSIONS
Ocular complications due to radiotherapy used to treat nasopharyngeal carcinomas are not as common as those caused by epiescleral radiotherapy for choroidal melanoma, but must be taken into account due to their special severity. We present a single case of a patient who suffered several subsequent ocular complications after such radiotherapy.
Sanabria
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MR
Hospital Río Hortega de Valladolid, España. rsanabria@ioba.med.uva.es
Fernández-Muñoz
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D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015352:Dry Eye Syndromes / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009443:Neuritis / Q000209:etiology*; D011867:Radioisotope Teletherapy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000209:etiology*