title: Intracranial metastasis from an esophageal gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University.
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hamada
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Itami
authors.forename: Go
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Shinya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.forename: Eiji
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Masato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hojo
authors.forename: Akihiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yoshizawa
authors.forename: Seiichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hirota
authors.forename: Yoshiharu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sakai
mesh_terms: 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