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  • Title: [Metastases of the choroid of the bronchial carcinoma (author's transl)].
    Author: Witschel H, Schmidt D, Möbius W.
    Journal: Klin Monbl Augenheilkd; 1975 Feb; 166(2):209-15. PubMed ID: 1142694.
    Abstract:
    Clinical and histopathological findings are described in 6 cases of chronchial carcinoma metastatic to the choroid of the eye. These findings show that especially in bronchial carcinoma, metastases of the choroid often are the first symptoms of the disease even before the primary site of the tumor is recognized. As these metastases often grow in a manner quite different from that of other uveal metastases, they are likely to be mistaken for uveal melanomas. Yet the right diagnosis is decisive for the right therapy. While in case of melanoma the eye has to be enucleated, x-ray therapy should be employed in metastatic carcinoma. Thus the patient can be prevented from becoming blind and from enucleation. The effect of x-ray treatment on the carcinoma cells in the choroid is demonstrated histologically in one of the cases.
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