AccScience Publishing / EJMO / Volume 1 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.14744/ejmo.2017.99608
CASE REPORT

Metastasis of Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder to the Orbit: A Case Report

Ahmed Cihad Genc1 Muhammet Bekir Hacioglu2 Osman Kostek3 Ilhan Hacibekiroglu4
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1 Department of Internal Medicine, Sakarya University Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya, Turkey
2 Department of Medical Oncology, Konya Training and Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey
3 Department of Medical Oncology, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey
4 Department of Medical Oncology, Sakarya University Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya, Turkey
Submitted: 12 May 2017 | Accepted: 14 July 2017 | Published: 26 July 2017
© 2017 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Presently described is the case of a 67-year-old male patient who presented at the urology clinic with complaints of hematuria and dysuria. Metastases of bladder cancer to the orbit, bilateral lungs, liver, and kidney were discovered. Palliative chemotherapy and radiotherapy for metastatic transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder was initiated.

Keywords
Bladder cancer
orbit
orbital metastasis
transitional cell carcinoma 
Conflict of interest
None declared.
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