CASE REPORT Metastatic versus metachronous adenoid cystic carcinoma in the lacrimal gland fossa: a case report Posey PY Wong1,2, MBChB; Karen KW Chan1,2, MBBS; Winnie CW Chu3, FHKCR; Kelvin KL Chong1,2, FCOphthHK 1Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong 2Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 3Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Correspondence and reprint requests: Dr Kelvin KL Chong, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 4/F Hong Kong Eye Hospital, 147K Argyle Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Email:
[email protected] with an expanding solitary subperiosteal metastasis of Abstract maxillary sinus ACC mimicking a double primary of contralateral lacrimal gland ACC. A 53-year-old woman presented with a left painless Case presentation enlarging lacrimal fossa lesion with hypoglobus and choroidal folds. 18 months earlier, she had undergone In December 2019, a 53-year-old woman presented surgery and chemoradiotherapy for right maxillary sinus to our hospital with worsening of the left lower visual adenoid cystic carcinoma. After initial 1.5T magnetic field loss. In January 2018, she had undergone subtotal resonance imaging, a double primary of left lacrimal maxillectomy, free fibular flap reconstruction, and adjuvant gland adenoid cystic carcinoma with tricompartmental chemoradiotherapy elsewhere for a pT3N0 ACC of the right (frontal bone, lacrimal and temporalis fossa) involvement maxilla. On examination, her left eye had 7-mm proptosis, was suspected.