Cerebral metastasis from choriocarcinoma and oncotic aneurysms. Case report.
Cerebral metastasis occur in 10 to 20% of patients with choriocarcinoma. We describe the twelfth patient with oncotic aneurysms from choriocarcinoma verified by cerebral angiography. The importance to consider this disease in a woman of childbearing age who develop an intracerebral hemorrhage or a lesion with mass effect is emphasized, as well as laboratial and radiological characteristics. Therapeutic approaches with chemotherapic agents, surgery and irradiation are discussed.
Gallo
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Departament of Neurosurgery and Neuroradiology, Cristo Redentor Hospital, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
Fabião Neto
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OM
Raupp
S F
SF
Ordovas
C A
CA
Oppitz
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D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D002822:Choriocarcinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*