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Purpose: To evaluate the visual and anatomic results of radiation therapy in ten patients with choroidal haemangiomas. Methods: Nine patients with circumscribed choroidal haemangiomas and one with diffuse choroidal haemangioma have been reviewed retrospectively. They were treated by lens-sparing external beam radiation therapy (20‐24 Gy) (9 eyes) and plaque brachytherapy (25 Gy) (1 eye), respectively. Results: The visual acuity improved by two lines or more in 8 of 10 eyes. No eyes showed deterioration of visual acuity. In all cases the retinal detachment showed complete resolution. A regression in tumour thickness was observed in all cases, and a reduction of anisometropia in cases with submacular infiltration by the tumour. During follow-up (0.4‐8.8 years) there were no signs of radiation cataract, retinopathy or optic neuropathy. Conclusions: External beam radiation (20‐25 Gy) is a reasonable alternative for treatment of symptomatic choroidal haemangiomas.

Purpose: To report a case of bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation (BDUMP), a rare paraneoplastic syndrome causing visual loss in patients with systemic carcinoma. Results: A 70-year-old woman developed visual symptoms 13 months after surgery and local irradiation therapy for uterine cancer. Following bilateral external beam irradiation supplemented with subsequent drainage of subretinal fluid in the left eye, the visual acuity improved from 0.01 to 0.15 in this eye only. The visual acuity remained at this level until she died 4 1/4 years after the onset of eye symptoms. Conclusion: This is the fourth case that survived longer than 24 months after the onset of visual symptoms of the 22 previously reported cases with BDUMP. It demonstrates that radiotherapy may have a vision-preserving effect in this group of patients. The patient also developed two different paraneoplastic phenomena ‐ a nephrotic syndrome before and BDUMP after treatment for uterine cancer.

To report a rare tumour of the eye, and to illustrate the importance of performing a fine-needle aspiration biopsy.An 80-year-old woman suffering from general malaise, dyspnea and abdominal pain was found to have multiple lung metastases, a large tumour in the upper part of the mediastinum, and a large orange-brown tumour (19 x 15 x 11 mm) situated nasally in the left eye. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the uveal tumour and of the goitre was performed. Cytological examination from the two sites disclosed cells compatible with a follicular thyroid carcinoma of oxyfil cell-type.The patient underwent a total thyroidectomy and has so far had 2 series of 131I therapy. Additionally, the eye tumour was treated locally with a 125I plaque, and three months later the tumour thickness had decreased from 11.0 to 6.4 mm. Best-corrected visual acuity is still unchanged. The patient's general state improved as her dyspnea decreased significantly.The treatment has improved the patient's quality of life, and probably prolonged her life expectancy. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy was necessary to establish the diagnosis.