Neurologia medico-chirurgica
Online ISSN : 1349-8029
Print ISSN : 0470-8105
ISSN-L : 0470-8105
Case Reports
Brain Metastasis in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Presenting as Intratumoral Hemorrhage
—Case Report—
Tatsuya ISHIKAWAHiroshi WANIFUCHIKeiichi ABEKoichi KATOAtsushi WATANABEYoshikazu OKADA
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2010 年 50 巻 11 号 p. 1027-1030

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A 51-year-old man presented with a rare case of brain metastasis of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) manifesting as intratumoral hemorrhage. He had undergone several treatments such as left pneumonectomy, pleurectomy, chemotherapy with cis-diamminedichloroplatinum and gemcitabine hydrochloride, and irradiation. Five years later, computed tomography revealed right parietal metastasis with intratumoral hemorrhage and the patient was treated by surgery and irradiation. Six months after the surgery, recurrent intratumoral hemorrhage occurred and a second surgery was performed. MPM has a poor prognosis and brain metastasis is rare, but long-term survival has recently improved through the application of multi-modality approaches. Therefore, the number of opportunities for treating MPM metastasis will increase in the near future. Intratumoral hemorrhage may occur in patients with solitary brain metastasis of MPM, so surgery should be considered as a general candidate treatment for metastatic tumors.
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