title: [Choroidal metastasis as a presenting feature of breast carcinoma].
abstract: Choroidal metastasis is a rare presenting feature of breast carcinoma. A 48-year-old woman presented with blurred vision of the right eye related to choroidal metastasis. Diagnostic work-up disclosed breast carcinoma with multiple metastases of the liver and lungs. Initial cerebral computed tomography scan was normal. During the follow-up, generalized seizure leaded to the diagnosis of multiple calcified cerebral metastasis. In 15 to 30 percent of cases, choroidal metastasis reveals a solid tumor, usually of the lung or the breast. Cerebral metastasis are common in breast cancer, but rarely calcified.
authors.affiliation: Service de médecine interne, centre hospitalier universitaire Purpan, 1, place du Docteur-Baylac, 31059 Toulouse cedex, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pugnet
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arista
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martin-Blondel
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Roche
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Arlet-Suau
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Astudillo
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000556:secondary*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology