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Choroid metastasis of testicular primary site: case report

Description of a male patient case, 22 years old, presenting visual acuity decrease in the left eye associated with the diagnosis of metastatic testicular tumor to lung and kidney. Evaluation of the evolution of a choroid lesion compatible with ocular metastasis of testis tumor through ophthalmologic and echographic examinations. There was resolution of the intraocular lesion together with lung radiologic improvement after chemotherapy during approximately 4 months of follow-up. In spite of the remission of the ocular lesion, the patient died due to complications of cerebral metastasis. Approached in the literature as rare, no report was found of a case of choroidal metastasis of a testicular site, this being, perhaps, its first description.

Choroid neoplasms; Testicular neoplasms; Neoplasm metastasis


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