Adenocarcinoma of the lung presenting as retinal detachment

oleh: Kaushik Saha, Koushik Bose, Arnab Saha, Subhasis Jana

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-01-01

Deskripsi

Retinal detachment is a rare presentation of lung cancer. A young female presented with blurring of vision in her right eye for the last 10 days without any history of trauma. On indirect ophthalmoscopy, there was a presence of right sided retinal detachment which was treated with oral prednisolone (60 mg/day). After 1 month of continuous treatment, she came back with dry cough left sided chest pain and deterioration of her eye symptoms. Chest X-ray showed left lung mass. Computed tomography guided fine needle aspiration cytology and with immunohistochemistry confirmed adenocarcinoma of the lung. She was treated with 6 cycles of chemotherapy with paclitaxel and gemcitabine.