CASE REPORT
Conjunctival metastasis of a renal cell carcinoma in a 59-year-old man – clinicopathological case report
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Department of Ophthalmology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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Department of Oncologic Pathology, Chair of Oncology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
Submission date: 2016-01-25
Final revision date: 2016-08-22
Acceptance date: 2016-08-30
Publication date: 2016-12-28
Medical Studies 2016;32(4):291-293
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ABSTRACT
The aim of the study was to present a rare case of conjunctival metastasis of a renal cell carcinoma. A 59-year-old man presented in 2012 with rapidly growing, painless, and occasionally bleeding right eye conjunctival tumour. The patient had a history of advanced renal cell carcinoma diagnosed 3 weeks previously. The conjunctival tumour was resected, and histopathological report confirmed the working diagnosis of a metastatic tumour. The patient received palliative radiation to the central nervous system but died from disseminated disease 8 weeks later. Conjunctival metastasis of a renal cell carcinoma is exceedingly rare. It appears in a stage of disseminated disease.
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