MASSIVE ORBITAL METASTASIS OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA
| Autor: | Thais Heinke, Everardo D. Saad, Emílio C. A. Lacerda, Márcia Serva Lowen, Danielle Calheiros Campelo Maia, Marcelo C. Machado-Netto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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lcsh:R5-920
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Lung genetic structures Genitourinary system business.industry General Medicine medicine.disease Primary tumor eye diseases Metastasis medicine.anatomical_structure Hepatocellular carcinoma Carcinoma medicine Orbital Neoplasms sense organs lcsh:Medicine (General) business Orbital metastasis |
| Zdroj: | Clinics, Vol 61, Iss 4, Pp 359-362 (2006) Clinics; v. 61 n. 4 (2006); 359-362 Clinics; Vol. 61 Núm. 4 (2006); 359-362 Clinics; Vol. 61 No. 4 (2006); 359-362 Clinics Universidade de São Paulo (USP) instacron:USP Clinics, Volume: 61, Issue: 4, Pages: 359-362, Published: AUG 2006 |
| ISSN: | 1807-5932 1980-5322 |
| Popis: | Compared to other organs, the eyes are relatively infrequent sites of metastasis. In a landmark case series, Ferry and Font described 227 cases of carcinoma metastatic to the eyes. Among these cases, only 28 (12%) were orbital metastases, most frequently from tumors of the breast, lung, and genitourinary tract; in this series, the diagnosis of orbital metastasis preceded the diagnosis of the primary tumor in 61% of cases. Metastases represent from 1% to 13% of orbital tumors, the rest being [...] |
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