Cancer-associated retinopathy with unusual retinal whitening.
OBJECTIVE
To describe the clinical characteristics and results of ocular and systemic testing in an atypical case of cancer-associated retinopathy.


METHODS
This study is a retrospective case report of a female patient.


RESULTS
Rapidly progressive visual loss, vitritis, white, ring- and coin-shaped retinal lesions, and panretinal optical coherence tomography thinning preceded the diagnosis of poorly differentiated cervical carcinoma with neuroendocrine features consistent with small-cell carcinoma.


CONCLUSIONS
Cancer-associated retinopathy can present with ring- and coin-shaped retinal lesions, vitritis, and panretinal thinning. The presence of intraocular inflammation and retinal and choroidal vasculopathy may herald more rapid visual demise.
Department of Ophthalmology, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania.
Joan J
JJ
Lee
Tamara R
TR
Vrabec
Vincent F
VF
Baldassano
D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D014822:Vitreous Body / Q000473:pathology