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[Cancer-associated retinopathy (CAR) in neuroendocrine carcinoma of the uterus]

Authors :
R, Siggel
T, Schick
R S, Grajewski
S, Liakopoulos
Source :
Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft. 116(5)
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

A 75-year-old female patient presented with bilateral progressive loss of vision. Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was hand movements in the right eye and 1/50 in the left eye. The spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) showed thinning of the outer retina suspected to be due to autoimmune retinopathy. A neuroendocrine carcinoma of the uterus was diagnosed during tumor screening. Under systemic therapy with corticosteroids the visual acuity improved to 20/200 in the right eye and 20/80 in the left eye. Cancer-associated retinopathy (CAR) is a paraneoplastic autoimmune retinopathy.

Details

Language :
German
ISSN :
14330423
Volume :
116
Issue :
5
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft
Accession number :
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