title: Solitary intra-ventricular brain metastasis from a breast carcinoma.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Padua University Hospital, Via Giustiniani 2, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Padua, Italy. alessandro.dellapuppa@sanita.padova.it
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Della Puppa
authors.forename: Sandro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dal Pos
authors.forename: Stefania
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zovato
authors.forename: Enrico
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Orvieto
authors.forename: Pietro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ciccarino
authors.forename: Renzo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Manara
authors.forename: Fable
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zustovich
authors.forename: Franco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Berti
authors.forename: Marina Paola
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Gardiman
authors.forename: Renato
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Scienza
mesh_terms: 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