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Metastatic breast carcinoma presenting as a conjunctival lesion
Author(s) -
Skalicky Simon E,
Hirst Lawrence W,
Conway R Max
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
clinical and experimental ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.3
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1442-9071
pISSN - 1442-6404
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01587.x
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , metastatic lesion , conjunctiva , breast carcinoma , metastatic carcinoma , carcinoma , chemotherapy , metastatic breast cancer , breast cancer , lesion , pathology , metastasis , oncology , cancer
A bstract Metastatic carcinoma to the conjunctiva is a rare tumour that reflects advanced disease with a poor prognosis. A case of conjunctival metastatic breast carcinoma is described which developed 9 months after the primary cancer was removed, and led to the detection of diffuse systemic malignancy. The tumour responded to intravenous chemotherapy.