Table 1 Malignant tumor in previous blind eyes
From: Malignancy in the blind painful eye – report of two cases and literature review
Authors | Patient | Eye | Signs/Symptoms | Suspicious malignancy | Treatment | Pathologic diagnosis | Follow-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ten Thije 6 | 66-year-old, man | RE | Exophthalmos | Yes | Exenteration | Large-cell sarcoma | Death few months after diagnostic |
Sarma et al 5 | 62-year-old, man | LE | Progressive proptosis, eye pain, left orbit mass | Yes | Exenteration | Extrascleral Uveal melanoma | No follow-up reported |
Nelson & Kincaid 4 | 70-year-old, man | LE | dark inferonasal and superiorly conjunctival mass, mass in the anterior chamber | Yes | Exenteration | Extrascleral Uveal melanoma (ciliary body) | Pulmonary and bone metastasis, death 1 year after diagnostic |
Nelson & Kincaid 4 | 79-year-old, man | RE | eye pain, black exophytic subconjunctival mass | Yes | Exenteration | Extrascleral Uveal melanoma | Liver metastasis 8 months later, death 14 months after diagnostic |
Loeffler et al 3 | 66-year-old, man | RE | eye pain | No | Enucleation | Malignant tumor of the retinal pigment epithelium | No death or metastasis 1 year after enucleation |
Edelstein et al 2 | 79-year-old, woman | RE | eye pain, exophthalmos | No | Enucleation | Presumed Adenocarcinoma of the retinal pigment epithelium with staphyloma | No follow-up reported |
Tripathi et al 7 | 45-year-old | RE | Eye pain | No | Enucleation | Uveal melanoma | No follow-up reported |
Pereira et al | 57-year-old, man | LE | eye pain, endophthalmitis, orbital cellulites | No | Enucleation | Extrascleral Uveal melanoma | No signs of metastatic disease after four years of follow-up |
Pereira et al | 54-year-old, man | LE | eye pain | No | Enucleation | Extranodal lymphoma of uveal tract with extra ocular extension | Lost to follow-up after six years |