TY - JOUR T1 - Optic nerve metastasis from a mediastinal carcinoid tumour. JF - British Journal of Ophthalmology JO - Br J Ophthalmol SP - 583 LP - 588 DO - 10.1136/bjo.60.8.583 VL - 60 IS - 8 AU - M. L. Fishman AU - S. Rosenthal Y1 - 1976/08/01 UR - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/60/8/583.abstract N2 - A 25-year-old man with a rapidly progressive metastatic carcinoid tumour arising in the mediastinum developed a metastasis to the optic nerve. This is the first instance in the literature of an ocular metastasis from this variant of carcinoid tumour. The ocular pathology, ultrastructure, and recent information on the derivation of this tumour, believed to originate in the thymus, are presented. ER -