Solitary intra-ventricular brain metastasis from a breast carcinoma.
Prevalence of symptomatic central nervous system (CNS) metastases among patients with breast cancer ranges from 5% to 16%, although autoptic studies have reported prevalence rates of up to 30%. Solid brain tumours are the most common presentation in the CNS (85-95%), and they tend to arise at the grey-white matter junction with a distribution that is proportional to the regional cerebral blood flow. Descriptions of solitary intra-ventricular metastasis are very rare; to date no cases from breast cancer have been reported in the literature. We present the unusual case of a breast cancer patient who developed a solitary choroid plexus metastasis in the left lateral ventricle.
Della Puppa
Alessandro
A
Department of Neurosurgery, Padua University Hospital, Via Giustiniani 2, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Padua, Italy. alessandro.dellapuppa@sanita.padova.it
Dal Pos
Sandro
S
Zovato
Stefania
S
Orvieto
Enrico
E
Ciccarino
Pietro
P
Manara
Renzo
R
Zustovich
Fable
F
Berti
Franco
F
Gardiman
Marina Paola
MP
Scienza
Renato
R
D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020547:Lateral Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods