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Volume 349:e22 December 4, 2003 Number 23
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Choroidal Metastasis from Renal-Cell Carcinoma

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A 38-year-old man presented to the ophthalmology department with a four-week history of defective central vision in his right eye. Examination of the fundus of the right eye showed two discrete, yellowish-orange subretinal masses, each measuring about 2.5 mm in diameter, occupying the posterior pole and involving the macular area (long arrows, Panel A). There was localized overlying edema of the neurosensory retina (short arrows, Panel A). The left fundus was unremarkable. The appearance of the fundus in the right eye was highly characteristic of choroidal metastasis.

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