Abstract

A 58 year-old woman with a history of diabetes mellitus and rectal Adenocarcinoma presented with acute loss of vision and pain in the left eye with hypopyon with no systemic symptoms at presentation. Diagnosis of endogenous endophthalmitis was made. Treatement was medical by topical, intravitreal and systemic antibiotics, with poor visual outcome. This case reminds ophthalmologists that endogenous endophthalmitis might be associated with underlying malignancy.

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