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Cancer-associated retinopathy with presumed vasculitis
1Department of Ophthalmology, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Koshigaya Hospital, Saitama, Japan. vyc13061@niftyserve.or.jp
American Journal of Ophthalmology
|July 1, 1996
Abstract
Purpose:
To treat a 63-year-old woman who experienced fairly rapid vision loss in association with small-cell carcinoma of the lung.
Methods:
She underwent a full ophthalmologic examination, including fluorescein angiography and an immunologic study by Western blot analysis.
Results:
Fluorescein angiography demonstrated diffuse staining of the retinal vessels. She had 62-kd antiretinal antibody in her serum. Cancer-associated retinopathy was diagnosed.
Conclusion:
The staining seen on the angiogram appears to indicate vasculitis, which would cause the characteristic attenuation of retinal vessels in this disease.