Cancer-associated retinopathy with unusual retinal whitening

Retin Cases Brief Rep. 2015 Winter;9(1):21-4. doi: 10.1097/ICB.0000000000000083.

Abstract

Purpose: To describe the clinical characteristics and results of ocular and systemic testing in an atypical case of cancer-associated retinopathy.

Methods: This study is a retrospective case report of a female patient.

Results: Rapidly progressive visual loss, vitritis, white, ring- and coin-shaped retinal lesions, and panretinal optical coherence tomography thinning preceded the diagnosis of poorly differentiated cervical carcinoma with neuroendocrine features consistent with small-cell carcinoma.

Conclusion: Cancer-associated retinopathy can present with ring- and coin-shaped retinal lesions, vitritis, and panretinal thinning. The presence of intraocular inflammation and retinal and choroidal vasculopathy may herald more rapid visual demise.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma, Small Cell / complications*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Retinal Diseases / etiology*
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / complications*
  • Vision Disorders / etiology
  • Vitreous Body / pathology