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Unusual metastatic features in a patient with
concomitant malignant orbital melanoma and prostate carcinoma
Ars C, Duck L, Baurain JF, Moulin P, Duprez T, Machiels JP
Medical Oncology Unit, Centre du Cancer, Universite Catholique de
Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
A 73-year-old man with a history of malignant orbital melanoma and prostate
carcinoma was admitted for progressive visual disturbance.
Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed a suprasellar enhancing nodular lesion
with major impingement on the anterior optical ways and sellar invasion.
The extensive imaging work-up could not demonstrate with certainty its
origin.
Surprisingly, the transphenoidal biopsy of this patient revealed a prostate
cancer metastasis outlining the importance of a histopathological diagnosis of
cerebral metastases in patients with multiple malignancies when there is a doubt
about the nature of the lesion.
PMID: 15015669 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=1501566
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