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Intraocular metastasis of endodermal sinus tumour
  1. Sh SHUANGSHOTI,
  2. P SAMPATANUKUL,
  3. S INGKATANUWAT,
  4. S SHUANGSHOTI
  1. Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
  1. Shanop Shuangshoti, MD, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.

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Editor,—Ocular metastases were previously thought to be rare.1 However, after having been extensively studied in patients with cancers, the incidence of ocular metastatic tumours increased.1-5 Haematological malignancy—including leukaemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma—is the most common primary cancer whereas mammary and pulmonary carcinomas are regarded as the most frequent intraocular metastatic carcinomas.1-5 We report an intraocular metastatic endodermal sinus (yolk sac) tumour which, to our knowledge, has not yet been described.

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