ONCOLOGY LETTERS 10: 790-792, 2015
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Iris metastasis from esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: A case report DONGLAI LV1, ZONGTAO HU1, CHONG WANG1, SHILE GAO1 and JUN XU2 Departments of 1Clinical Oncology and 2Pathology, The 105 Hospital of The People's Liberation Army, Hefei, Anhui 230031, P.R. China Received August 25, 2014; Accepted May 12, 2015 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2015.3255 Abstract. Carcinoma metastatic to the eye is a rare condition, typically associated with a poor prognosis. Breast and lung cancers are the most common sources of intraocular metastases, and the majority of metastatic lesions involve the posterior uvea, with
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Iris metastasis from esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: A case report DONGLAI LV1, ZONGTAO HU1, CHONG WANG1, SHILE GAO1 and JUN XU2 Departments of 1Clinical Oncology and 2Pathology, The 105 Hospital of The People's Liberation Army, Hefei, Anhui 230031, P.R. China Received August 25, 2014; Accepted May 12, 2015 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2015.3255 Abstract. Carcinoma metastatic to the eye is a rare condition, typically associated with a poor prognosis. Breast and lung cancers are the most common sources of intraocular metastases, and the majority of metastatic lesions involve the posterior uvea, with
