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John R. Ainsworth, MBBS, BMedSci, FRCS, FCOphth; Bertil E. Damato, PhD, FRCS, FCOphth; William R. Lee, MD, FRCPath; W. Donald Alexander, MD, FRCP
Glasgow, Scotland

Arch Ophthalmol. 1992;110(1):19-20.

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Metastatic spread of tumors to the iris is rare.¹ Such lesions most commonly arise from a primary breast or lung neoplasm and are associated with widespread carcinomatosis and a short life expectancy.

We report a case of local excision of a solitary thyroid metastasis to the iris in a patient without any evidence of extraocular malignancy.

Report of a Case.

—A 38-year-old Asian woman in good health presented with mild dull pain in the right eye of 3 weeks' duration. The patient gave a medical history of partial thyroidectomy 7 years earlier that had been performed to explore a "cold nodule" found on iodine 123 scan. However, pathologic examination had demonstrated multinodular hyperplasia without any evidence of neoplasia.

Slit-lamp examination revealed a spherical, pink, vascularized tumor in the superotemporal iris (Fig 1). Fluorescein angiography confirmed the highly vascular nature of the mass with leakage of dye into the anterior . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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