title: Cerebral metastasis from choriocarcinoma and oncotic aneurysms. Case report.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Departament of Neurosurgery and Neuroradiology, Cristo Redentor Hospital, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gallo
authors.forename: O M
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Fabião Neto
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Raupp
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Ordovas
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Oppitz
mesh_terms: 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*