Metastatic adenocarcinoma to the retina in a patient with Muir-Torre syndrome

Am J Ophthalmol. 1995 Aug;120(2):248-50. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9394(14)72616-9.

Abstract

Purpose/methods: A 74-year-old woman had multiple tumors including a retinal mass. Her medical history included cutaneous sebaceous adenomas, adenocarcinoma of the breast, and colonic adenocarcinoma. Her involved eye became painful and was enucleated.

Results/conclusions: Examination of the enucleated eye disclosed metastatic adenocarcinoma to the retina with retinal detachment. The patient described has a retinal metastasis of an unknown primary tumor site with Muir-Torre syndrome, characterized by an association of a sebaceous gland tumor with an internal malignancy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / secondary*
  • Adenocarcinoma / surgery
  • Adenoma / pathology*
  • Aged
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Colonic Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Eye Enucleation
  • Eyelid Neoplasms
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Keratoacanthoma
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / pathology*
  • Retina / pathology
  • Retinal Detachment / etiology
  • Retinal Detachment / pathology
  • Retinal Diseases* / pathology
  • Retinal Diseases* / surgery
  • Sebaceous Gland Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Syndrome