Abstract

The incidence of ocular metastases from lung cancer is reported to be 0.1%-7% according to the international literature. Adenocarcinoma and small-cell lung cancer occupied the most proportion. Lung squamous cell carcinoma with solitary symptomatic ocular metastasis as the initial manifestation who accepted the multidisciplinary team (MDT) treatment has never been reported. In the diagnosis of intracranial disease, ophthalmofundoscopy can be used for follow-up observation and evaluation of therapeutic effects. Whole body PET -CT imaging can be used to identify the primary cancer and determine the disease staging. A 62-year-old woman presented to ophthalmology of hospital with a 1-week history of left eye pain, blurred vision. The ophthalmologist performed ophthalmofundoscopy and optical coherence tomography on the patient(Fig.1A). The ophthalmologist initial diagnosis is metastatic carcinoma to the eye. The diagnostic work was completed with PET-CT which confirmed the central lung cancer in the lower lobe of the right lung with ocular metastasis. After multiple disciplinary team consultations, including surgery, internal medicine, ophthalmology, radiotherapy and imaging department, the patient underwent the right lower lobe resection and lymph node dissection in December 2016. Postoperative pathology diagnose the right lung-squamous-cell carcinoma staged T2aN1. In February 2017, the patient reviewed the eye examination and indicated that the ocular lesions were enlarged. The patient received 4 courses of gemcitabine plus cisplatin regimen chemotherapy. The eye symptoms disappeared completely after 4 courses (Fig.2B). The progression-free time was 11.9 months. There're 16.5 months for the patients has been followed up (March, 2018) from surgery, and the lesion of ocular was still controlled very well without any specific ocular treatment. It's the first report of a rare case with solitary ocular metastasis as the initial manifestation of lung squamous cell carcinoma. The successful treatment of this case was reported to provide a new therapeutic reference for clinicians to encounter similar cases in the future.

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