title: Metastatic lymphoepithelioma to the orbit: an aggressive rare nasopharygeal tumor in a Hispanic patient.
abstract: A 64 year-old Hispanic male patient presented to our institution with a three-month history of frontal headaches, reduced vision, retroorbital pain, photophobia, sinus congestion, bloody nasal discharge, and decreased audition in the left ear. The diagnosis of metastatic lymphoepithelioma to the orbit was made based on clinical history, histopathological examination of an orbital biopsy, and imaging studies. Lymphoepithelioma rarely develops in Hispanic populations. However, it is endemic in certain areas, including North Africa, Southeast Asia. China and the far north hemisphere. Radiotherapy is th treatment of choice of localized lymphoepithelioma and concurrent chemotherapy-radiotherapy with neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been used in locally advanced metastatic settings.
authors.affiliation: Internal Medicine Department VA Caribbean Health Care System, San Juan, Puerto Rico. elizabethcalderon1@gmail.com
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Calderón Alicea
authors.forename: Mónica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Santiago-Casiano
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cáceres-Perkins
authors.forename: Alvin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Almodovar
mesh_terms: D002277:Carcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*