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Arch Ophthalmol. 2000;118:846-847.

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Ocular metastasis of renal cell carcinoma is rare, and metastasis to the iris or ciliary body is especially uncommon. Ferry and Font¹ studied 227 cases of metastatic tumors of the eye and orbit and reported that 26 (11.5%) of these lesions were iris or ciliary body tumors and that 2 (0.9%) originated in the kidney. We examined a patient with an iris tumor that metastasized from a renal cell carcinoma and observed marked effects of interferon alfa administration.

Report of a Case

A 55-year-old man was seen on September 3, 1992, with a 1-week history of decreased vision in his right eye. His history included radical right nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma in December 1990 and left partial pneumonectomy due to lung metastasis in June 1992.

The corrected visual acuity was 20/20 OU and the intraocular pressure was 11 mm Hg OU. Slitlamp biomicroscopy showed cells in the anterior chamber and a well-circumscribed solid . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Tomohiro Ikeda, MD; Keiko Sato, MD; Takanobu Tokuyama, MD
Osaka, Japan

Corresponding author: Tomohiro Ikeda, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka City General Hospital, 2-13-22, Miyakojimahondori, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka 534-0021, Japan (e-mail: tikeda@a2.mbn.or.jp).