Brain Metastasis from Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Metastasis of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) into the central nervous system is extremely rare. We report a patient with synchronous GIST and brain metastasis. At disease onset, there was left hemiplegia and ptosis of the right eyelids. Resection cytology of the brain tumor was reported as me...

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Autores principales: Naoe, Hideaki, Kaku, Eisuke, Ido, Yumi, Gushima, Rika, Maki, Yoko, Saito, Hirokazu, Yokote, Seiichiro, Gushima, Ryosuke, Nonaka, Kouichi, Hoshida, Yohmei, Murao, Tetsuya, Ozaki, Tetsu, Yokomine, Kazunori, Tanaka, Hideki, Nagahama, Hiroyasu, Sakurai, Kouichi, Tanaka, Motohiko, Iyama, Ken-ichi, Baba, Hideo, Sasaki, Yutaka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2011
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Published: October 2011
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3219482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22110419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000333403

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