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Published on: July 28, 2012
[Palliative radiotherapy for a retrobulbar metastasis from a urinary bladder carcinoma]
F Zwicker1, K Herfarth, J Debus
1Abt. für Radioonkologie und Strahlentherapie, Radiologische Klinik, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany. Felix.Zwicker@med.uni-heidelberg.de
Abstract:
Retrobulbar metastases from transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder are very rare. This is a case report of palliative radiotherapy successfully reducing acute clinical symptoms such as proptosis, dysfunction of the eye muscles and diplopia in a 50-year-old male patient with a retrobulbar metastasis from transitional cell carcinoma. Radiotherapy quickly ameliorated the proptosis and dysfunction of the eye muscles without side effects. The patient's quality of life was clearly improved.
