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Metastatic esophageal carcinoma to the orbit
M J Collins1, T H Wojno, H E Grossniklaus
1Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
American Journal of Ophthalmology
|February 25, 1999
Abstract
Purpose:
To report a case of esophageal adenocarcinoma and areas of gastric differentiation in the esophagus (Barrett esophagus) metastatic to the orbit.
Methods:
A 47-year-old man with a history of esophageal carcinoma developed turgescence around his left eye. He underwent a biopsy and histologic examination of a left orbital mass.
Results:
Histopathology of the orbital tumor was consistent with metastatic adenocarcinoma from the esophagus.
Conclusions:
This metastatic adenocarcinoma to the orbit likely arose in Barrett esophagus.