Fabian, ID;
Hildebrand, GD;
Wilson, S;
Foord, T;
Sagoo, MS;
(2016)
Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma of the foot metastasizing to the Iris: report of a rare case.
BMC Cancer
, 16
, Article 447. 10.1186/s12885-016-2496-6.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Intraocular iris rhabdomyosarcoma is extremely rare, and in the 3 cases reported to date occurred as the primary site of tumour growth. We report a case of rhabdomyosarcoma of the foot metastasizing to the iris. CASE PRESENTATION: An 18-year-old white female was referred to the London Ocular Oncology Service for management of a metastatic rhabdomyosarcomatous deposit in the iris, a metastasis from alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma of the foot. She was diagnosed nearly 2 years earlier with the primary sarcoma with extensive systemic spread and treated by resection of the foot lesion and chemotherapy, and achieved a partial remission. The left iris deposit was noted while she was receiving systemic chemotherapy, heralding a relapse. However, anterior uveitis and raised intraocular pressure developed and she was referred to our service for further management. A left iris secondary rhabdomyosarcoma deposit was noticed and in addition a lacrimal gland mass, as indicated by ultrasound B scan of the eye and orbit. The patient was treated with external beam radiotherapy to the globe and orbit, but died 2 months after treatment completion. CONCLUSION: Rhabdomyosarcoma of the iris is very rare and was previously documented only as a primary malignancy in this location. We report that secondary spread to the iris can also occur, in this case as the first sign of widely disseminated systemic relapse.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma of the foot metastasizing to the Iris: report of a rare case |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1186/s12885-016-2496-6 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-016-2496-6 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © The Author(s). 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated |
Keywords: | Oncology, Rhabdomyosarcoma, Iris, Metastasis, Case report, Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma, Uveal Metastases |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1517286 |
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