Dear Editor,We would like to report visual disturbance due to choroidal metastasis as the first clinical sign of renal carcinoma.Metastatic tumours are one of the most common type of intraocular malignancy in adults w...Dear Editor,We would like to report visual disturbance due to choroidal metastasis as the first clinical sign of renal carcinoma.Metastatic tumours are one of the most common type of intraocular malignancy in adults with the most common origins of metastasis being the lungs in men and breasts in women[1-2].Ocular choroidal metastases from renal cell carcinoma(RCC)are rare with 3.5%of ocular metastases originating from the kidneys[3].RCC predominantly occurs in individuals in their seventh and eighth decades of life and has been reported nearly twice as often in men as in women[1,3].展开更多
文摘Dear Editor,We would like to report visual disturbance due to choroidal metastasis as the first clinical sign of renal carcinoma.Metastatic tumours are one of the most common type of intraocular malignancy in adults with the most common origins of metastasis being the lungs in men and breasts in women[1-2].Ocular choroidal metastases from renal cell carcinoma(RCC)are rare with 3.5%of ocular metastases originating from the kidneys[3].RCC predominantly occurs in individuals in their seventh and eighth decades of life and has been reported nearly twice as often in men as in women[1,3].
