title: Cancer associated retinopathy with periphlebitis and bilateral vitreous hemorrhage.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cancer associated retinopathy (CAR) is an uncommon paraneoplastic syndrome associated with epithelial neoplasm. Ocular symptoms of this syndrome are varied.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 40-year-old man with an existing smoking history noticed a bilateral visual loss.Fundus examination showed a bilateral vitreous hemorrhage.In the left eye, there were narrowed retinal arterioles and peripapillary neovessels. An X-ray chest revealed a lung lesion which on biopsy proved to be a bronchial squamous cell carcinoma. After conducting several explorations,we have diagnosed CAR.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Vitreous hemorrhage is one of the symptoms of CAR. Thus, systems review, searching for an extraocular cancer, X-ray chest and ERG are recommended in this case.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chéour
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Agrebi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hijazi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D059545:Paraneoplastic Syndromes, Ocular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D011859:Radiography; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D014823:Vitreous Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology