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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Year : 2018  |  Volume : 66  |  Issue : 8  |  Page : 1230

Comment on: A rare case of unilateral diffuse melanocytic proliferation


Advanced Eye Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

Date of Web Publication23-Jul-2018

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Dr. Mohit Dogra
Advanced Eye Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh
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DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_565_18

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Sir,

We read with great interest the case report by Ayachit et al.[1] describing unilateral presentation of diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation (DUMP) syndrome. The authors must be complemented on immaculate documentation of this rare case with multimodal imaging.

However, a couple of areas need clarification. Oral tamoxifen was started for this patient with biopsy-proven metastatic breast cancer as the tumor had estrogen and progesterone receptor (PR) positivity. Tamoxifen has been shown to be the treatment of choice for postmenopausal females with PR-positive metastatic breast cancer.[2] How did the primary site respond to chemotherapy? If the tumor reduced in size after chemotherapy, is it not possible that the paraneoplastic syndrome associated with it would also reduce in severity/intensity?

Second, DUMP is a paraneoplastic phenomenon and hence to institute intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) therapy for this entity defies logic. Furthermore, regression shown by the authors on optical coherence tomography is after 2 months after starting tamoxifen and IVB. The authors site the report by Lin et al., in which the efficacy of IVB for choroidal metastasis due to colon cancer is highlighted.[3] DUMP is distinct from metastasis and occurs due to distant effect of the primary tumor. To ascribe the resolution of subretinal fluid and improvement of visual acuity solely to IVB would be incorrect, especially when it is known that even plasmapheresis/steroids do not work in most cases of DUMP.[4],[5]

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Ayachit G, Ayachit A, Joshi S, Vasudevan SV. A rare case of unilateral diffuse melanocytic proliferation. Indian J Ophthalmol 2018;66:588-90.  Back to cited text no. 1
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Bergh J, Jönsson PE, Glimelius B, Nygren P; SBU-group. Swedish Council of Technology Assessment in Health Care. A systematic overview of chemotherapy effects in breast cancer. Acta Oncol 2001;40:253-81.  Back to cited text no. 2
    
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Lin CJ, Li KH, Hwang JF, Chen SN. The effect of intravitreal bevacizumab treatment on choroidal metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma – case report. Eye (Lond) 2010;24:1102-3.  Back to cited text no. 3
    
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Schelvergem KV, Wirix M, Nijs I, Leys A. Bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation with good clinical response to plasmapheresis and treatment of the primary tumor. Retin Cases Brief Rep 2015;9:106-8.  Back to cited text no. 4
    
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Moreno TA, Patel SN. Comprehensive review of treatments for bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation: A focus on plasmaphereis. Int Ophthalmol Clin 2017;57:177-94.  Back to cited text no. 5
    



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