Abstract

SANABRIA, M.R.  and  FERNANDEZ-MUNOZ, M.. Teletherapy ocular complications: A clinical case. Arch Soc Esp Oftalmol [online]. 2007, vol.82, n.6, pp.361-364. ISSN 0365-6691.

Clinical case: An 82-year-old pseudophakic male patient developed several ocular complications after teletherapy for cavum carcinoma. Three years after receiving the radiotherapy, he presented with a right optic neuritis with some posterior improvement. Five years later he developed an ischemic retinopathy and a severe dry eye syndrome. Discussion: Ocular complications due to radiotherapy used to treat nasopharyngeal carcinomas are not as common as those caused by epiescleral radiotherapy for choroidal melanoma, but must be taken into account due to their special severity. We present a single case of a patient who suffered several subsequent ocular complications after such radiotherapy.

Keywords : Dry eye; nasopharyngeal carcinoma; optic neuropathy; radiotherapy; radiation retinopathy.

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