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Editor,—The sites of primary tumour metastatic to the orbit have been well documented by several major surveys. Metastatic breast, lung, and prostate carcinoma account for most of the orbital metastases.1-7 To our knowledge, orbital metastasis from carcinoma of the cervix has not been described before. We report a 46-year-old Chinese woman in whom orbital metastasis developed 4 months after she was diagnosed to have squamous carcinoma of the cervix.
CASE REPORT
A 46-year-old Chinese woman was diagnosed to have squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix FIGO stage IIB in February 1993. She received radiation therapy to the pelvis from 16 March to 22 April 1993. She started to develop a right proptosis in June and presented to us in late October 1993 (Fig 1). Ocular examination showed a visual acuity of 6/24 right and 6/9 left with normal colour vision. Hertel’s exophthalmometer confirmed the right proptosis (23 …