Intracranial metastasis from an esophageal gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
We report the case of a woman with intracranial metastasis from an esophageal gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) with the mutation site in the 3' end of exon 11. Frontal craniotomy was performed with complete resection of the mass, followed by postoperative stereotaxic radiotherapy (SRT). Intracranial metastasis from GISTs is extremely rare; we found only seven case reports in the literature.
Hamada
Satoshi
S
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University.
Itami
Atsushi
A
Watanabe
Go
G
Nakayama
Shinya
S
Tanaka
Eiji
E
Hojo
Masato
M
Yoshizawa
Akihiko
A
Hirota
Seiichi
S
Sakai
Yoshiharu
Y
D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D046152:Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics