title: High-grade glioma in a patient with breast cancer.
abstract: Breast cancer is one of the most common origins of metastatic lesions in the central nervous system. Many patients with a breast cancer and concurrent brain tumor(s) were diagnosed to have a metastatic lesion or lesions in the brain, based exclusively on their image findings without further pathologic verification, and received radiotherapy alone thereafter. It is, however, possible that a different pathology such as primary brain malignancy, which actually warrants a specific treatment modality, may occur in such patients with an already known malignancy. We, herein, reported a 61-year-old female patient who suffered from an anaplastic oligodendroglioma 1 year after her diagnosis of breast cancer. Demographic data, characteristic imaging findings, treatment, and outcome of the patient were discussed.
authors: Neurosurgical Service, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors: Che-Chao
authors: CC
authors: Chang
authors: Neurosurgical Service, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors: Chih-Hao
authors: CH
authors: Tien
authors: Neurosurgical Service, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors: Shih-Huang
authors: SH
authors: Tai
authors: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors: Ming-Tsung
authors: MT
authors: Chuang
authors: Department of Pathology and Cell Biology and Anatomy, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors: Chun-I
authors: CI
authors: Sze
authors: Neurosurgical Service, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors: Yu-Chang
authors: YC
authors: Hung
authors: Neurosurgical Service, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Electronic address: ejian@mail.ncku.edu.tw.
authors: E-Jian
authors: EJ
authors: Lee
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D018270:Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D060787:Neoplasm Grading; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D009837:Oligodendroglioma / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: anaplastic oligodendroglioma; breast cancer; high-grade glioma; metastatic brain lesions