BILATERAL METASTATIC CARCINOMA OF THE CHOROID

1 July 1943

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)

Vol. 30 (1) , 25-37
https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1943.00880190039003

Abstract

Metastatic carcinoma of the choroid is a comparatively rare condition. It was first presented in a pathologic report in 1872 by Perls.¹Since that time approximately 250 cases have been published or reported in discussions. The literature has been completely reviewed by Marshall,²Krukenberg,³Parsons,⁴Oatman,⁵Suker and Grosvenor,⁶Ask,⁷Lemoine and McLeod⁸and others.⁹Many of the reports are only summaries of the pathologic examination, for comparatively few eyes have been examined before the detachment of the retina. Among cases in which the fundus was described are 2 reported by de Schweinitz¹⁰in 1898. In one there was a broad, flat, grayish yellow elevation, the summit of which was best seen with a + 6.00 D. sph. lens. This gradually merged, without a distinct line of separation, into the surrounding choroid, beginning near the edge of the optic disk, covering

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FREQUENCY OF METASTATIC CARCINOMA OF THE CHOROID
British Journal of Ophthalmology, 1926