A hypertensive patient with multiple intracerebral hemorrhages due to brain metastases.
We report the case of a 55-year-old man, hypertensive, who presented to the Emergency Room with intense occipital cephaleea, nausea, vomiting and disturbance of balance. The peculiarity of this case was given by the simultaneous presence of two brain hemorrhagic lesions and an unusual hypodensity with digitiform borders at cerebral CT scan, which suggested a different etiology than hypertension and leaded us to further investigations, which confirmed the diagnosis of lung cancer with multiple brain metastases.
Ghitoiu
Ana
A
Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Bucharest, Romania.
Rusu
Elena Camelia
EC
Slăvoacă
Dana
D
Aigyul
Elmi
E
Popescu
Bogdan O
BO
D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D018931:Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D003907:Dexamethasone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000473:pathology*
D000959:Antihypertensive Agents; D018931:Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal; D003907:Dexamethasone