Ocular candidiasis without other organ involvement: report of an autopsy case

This paper reports the occurrence of candidal chorioretinitis in a 78-year-old male patient with malignant lymphoma. Macroscopically there were multiple lesions observed in the posterior pole of the left fundus. A main lesion, white, elevated and associating with hemorrhage, was present laterally to the macula and small, white satellite lesions were found scattered. Histopathologically the lesions showed typical features of candidiasis including suppurative and granulomatous chorioretinitis. It seems this is only the second reported case of ocular candidiasis without other organ involvement in the literature. It was suggested that candidal infection possibly occurred only in the eye.