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Arch Ophthalmol. 2005;123:850-853.

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In contrast to choroidal metastases, which are the most common malignant intraocular neoplasms in adults, metastases confined to the retina are extremely rare.¹ The colon is an infrequent source of metastatic carcinoma to the retina. To our knowledge, there are 2 other reported cases of metastatic adenocarcinoma of the retina that potentially derive from adenocarcinoma of the colon. In 1 case, the patient had Muir-Torre syndrome with sebaceous adenomas of the face and neck, uterine leiomyoma, adenocarcinoma of the breast, colonic adenocarcinoma, keratoacanthoma of the eyelid and squamous cell carcinoma of the forehead.² In the same case, histopathologic analysis of the retinal tumor had occurred following enucleation of a painful eye. Although the retinal lesion was an adenocarcinoma, it had clear cell features that were lacking in the adenocarcinoma of the colon.² During the course of care, the patient had also undergone previous mastectomy for the adenocarcinoma of the breast . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD; Cathy DiBernardo, RN, RDMS, ROUB; Joel R. Pearlman, MD, PhD; Saurabh Patel, MD; Andrew P. Schachat, MD; W. Richard Green, MD; Peter Gehlbach, MD, PhD