Brain metastasis localized to an area of infarction.
A patient with adenosquamous carcinoma of the cervix developed brain metastases limited to an area of evolving infarction. This preferential localization of tumor in an area of previous tissue injury with neovascularization provides support, in the human, for the importance of local vascular factors in the development of brain metastases.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D002536:Cerebral Arteries / Q000473:pathology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002542:Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009389:Neovascularization, Pathologic / Q000473:pathology; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*