Bilateral choroidal tumors consistent with metastatic malignant paraganglioma.
Retin Cases Brief Rep
; 7(4): 301-3, 2013.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
To report a patient with bilateral choroidal metastasis from a malignant paraganglioma.METHODS:
Clinicopathologic case report and literature review.RESULTS:
A 68-year-old woman presented with bilateral amelanotic focal choroidal lesions. A thorough systemic work-up for a primary cancer revealed a paraganglioma (extraadrenal pheochromocytoma) and a pheochromocytoma of the left adrenal gland. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the choroidal lesion was consistent with metastatic paraganglioma.CONCLUSION:
Metastatic paraganglioma, although rare, has the ability to metastasize to the choroid.
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Retin Cases Brief Rep
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2013
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UNITED STATES
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USA