[Soft roentgen therapy in cutaneous metastases of the eyelids].

HISTORY

Within 6 months a 88-year-old woman developed cutaneous metastases with infiltration of the eye-lid so that an opening of the eye-lids became impossible. The primary tumor histologically resembled a mamma carcinoma.

THERAPY

Within a few days the cutaneous metastases of the eye-lids decreased by using x-ray therapy with the Dermopan II with a single dosage of 5 Gy and a total dosage of 35 Gy on the eye-lids. Even 12 months after palliative therapy the opening of the eye-lids was possible without any problems.

CONCLUSIONS

By using the x-ray therapy immediate and gentle help could be given to the terminally ill patients so that eye-lid surgery could be avoided.