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Surgical resection of metastatic intraventricular tumors
Vecil GG, Lang FF
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,
1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Unit 442, Houston, TX 77030-4009, USA.
The ventricle is a rare site of brain metastases.
Renal cell carcinoma has a higher propensity to metastasize to the ventricle
compared with more common metastatic tumors (e.g., lung cancer).
The trigone is the predominant location for intraventricular metastases,
presumably because of the high concentration of choroid plexus in this
region.
Surgical resection is an important component of the management of these lesions,
particularly if there is only a single intraventricular lesion.
Despite the deep location of these tumors within the ventricle, survival in
patients undergoing surgery for them is comparable to that in patients receiving
surgery for intraparenchymal metastases.
PMID: 15024803 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15024803
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