[Ocular melanoma metastases to primary liver carcinoma]

Two days after hospitalization, a 64-year-old patient with chronic coronary heart disease developed jaundice. He was diagnosed as having primary liver cancer. During the past 3 years, the patient had lost sight in the right eye. He died of hepatic and cardiac failures 8 days following hospitalization. Pathoanatomic examination revealed massive poorly differentiated carcinoma of the liver and right ocular melanoma (spindle cell one). The latter had metastasized into the episcleral tissue of the same eye, liver, and hepatic tumor tissue, and liver carcinoma had invaded the organ itself and pleura.