Case report: Testicular cancer can metastasize to eye

Testicular embryonal cell carcinoma can metastasize to the eye, according to a recently published case study.

Nejmi Kiymaz, MD, and colleagues in Turkey examined a patient with an intraocular tumor to the vitreous deemed to have originated from testicular embryonal cell carcinoma. The patient also had intracranial metastasis. The patient underwent surgery for an intracranial lesion. After the patient died, a postmortem examination of the intraocular lesion determined it to be metastatic embryonal cell carcinoma, the report’s authors said.

“Testicular embryonal cell carcinoma, even though rare, must be considered to metastasize to the eye,” the authors said.

The case report is published in Acta Neurologica Belgica.