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Carcinoma of the Breast with Orbital Metastasis in a Young Nigerian - A case Report
Abstract
Orbital metastasis is rarely the first sign of a malignant process. Most cases of metastatcis orbital tumours are diagnosed in patients with known primaries elsewhere.
The patient presented is one of the unusual cases of breast carcinoma in a young person. Her primary presentation to the eye clinic with “orbital inflammatory disease” (which turned out to be a metastasis into the orbit) prior to the diagnosis of the primary disease makes her even more unusual. All cases of “inflammatory orbital disease” require a full and thorough physical examination.
KEY WORDS: Breast Cancer, Young, Meratasis.
[Nig. J. Ophthalmology Vol.10(1): 28-31]
The patient presented is one of the unusual cases of breast carcinoma in a young person. Her primary presentation to the eye clinic with “orbital inflammatory disease” (which turned out to be a metastasis into the orbit) prior to the diagnosis of the primary disease makes her even more unusual. All cases of “inflammatory orbital disease” require a full and thorough physical examination.
KEY WORDS: Breast Cancer, Young, Meratasis.
[Nig. J. Ophthalmology Vol.10(1): 28-31]
