Solitary choroid plexus metastasis from carcinoma of the oesophagus.
Metastatic tumors to the brain presenting exclusively in the choroid plexus are rare and are most frequently associated with renal cell carcinoma. In this paper, the authors report an unusual case of intraventricular metastasis, and to the authors' knowledge, this is the first case of solitary metastasis from oesophageal carcinoma to the choroid plexus to be described in the literature. Metastatic disease is an important differential diagnosis which must be considered even for a patient without a documented primary malignancy who presents with a single lesion in the ventricle.
Sung
Wen-Shan
WS
Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Hobart Hospital and University of Tasmania, GPO BOX 1061L, Hobart 7001, Tasmania, Australia. wssung@utas.edu.au
Dubey
Arvind
A
Erasmus
Albert
A
Hunn
Andrew
A
D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary*; D016545:Choroid Plexus Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged