76-year-old man with a cerebellar lesion.
We report a case of balloon cell melanoma metastatic to the cerebellum; the clear cell morphology prompted initial differential diagnostic considerations of metastatic renal cell carcinoma and hemangioblastoma in this site. To our knowledge this is only the second case of metastatic balloon cell melanoma to the CNS.
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA.
Marlin Dustin
MD
Richardson
Hilary
H
Somerset
B K
BK
Kleinschmidt-DeMasters
Allen
A
Waziri
D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000556:secondary*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*