{"title":"Cancer associated retinopathy with periphlebitis and bilateral vitreous hemorrhage.","authors":"M Chéour, S Agrebi, A Hijazi","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Cancer associated retinopathy (CAR) is an uncommon paraneoplastic syndrome associated with epithelial neoplasm. Ocular symptoms of this syndrome are varied.</p><p><strong>Case report: </strong>A 40-year-old man with an existing smoking history noticed a bilateral visual loss.Fundus examination showed a bilateral vitreous hemorrhage.In the left eye, there were narrowed retinal arterioles and peripapillary neovessels. An X-ray chest revealed a lung lesion which on biopsy proved to be a bronchial squamous cell carcinoma. After conducting several explorations,we have diagnosed CAR.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Vitreous hemorrhage is one of the symptoms of CAR. Thus, systems review, searching for an extraocular cancer, X-ray chest and ERG are recommended in this case.</p>","PeriodicalId":9308,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de la Societe belge d'ophtalmologie","volume":" 322","pages":"71-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bulletin de la Societe belge d'ophtalmologie","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Introduction: Cancer associated retinopathy (CAR) is an uncommon paraneoplastic syndrome associated with epithelial neoplasm. Ocular symptoms of this syndrome are varied.
Case report: A 40-year-old man with an existing smoking history noticed a bilateral visual loss.Fundus examination showed a bilateral vitreous hemorrhage.In the left eye, there were narrowed retinal arterioles and peripapillary neovessels. An X-ray chest revealed a lung lesion which on biopsy proved to be a bronchial squamous cell carcinoma. After conducting several explorations,we have diagnosed CAR.
Conclusion: Vitreous hemorrhage is one of the symptoms of CAR. Thus, systems review, searching for an extraocular cancer, X-ray chest and ERG are recommended in this case.