Cerebral metastasis from malignant pleural mesothelioma

Malignant mesothelioma is an uncommon, highly invasive tumor derived from the mesothelial cells of pleura or peritoneum characterized by poor outcome. Mesothelioma was thought to metastasize locally only via direct invasion and not have distant spread. Distant metastases were discovered mostly on po...

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Autores principales: El Molla, Mohamed, Gragnaniello, Cristian, Al-Khawaja, Darweesh, Chiribao-Negri, Concepcion, Eftekhar, Behzad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2013
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24963909
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjt087
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author El Molla, Mohamed
Gragnaniello, Cristian
Al-Khawaja, Darweesh
Chiribao-Negri, Concepcion
Eftekhar, Behzad
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Gragnaniello, Cristian
Al-Khawaja, Darweesh
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description Malignant mesothelioma is an uncommon, highly invasive tumor derived from the mesothelial cells of pleura or peritoneum characterized by poor outcome. Mesothelioma was thought to metastasize locally only via direct invasion and not have distant spread. Distant metastases were discovered mostly on post-mortem examination. The authors present a case of 62-year-old man with pleural mesothelioma and brain metastasis.
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spelling pubmed-38136662013-10-31 Cerebral metastasis from malignant pleural mesothelioma El Molla, Mohamed Gragnaniello, Cristian Al-Khawaja, Darweesh Chiribao-Negri, Concepcion Eftekhar, Behzad J Surg Case Rep Case Reports Malignant mesothelioma is an uncommon, highly invasive tumor derived from the mesothelial cells of pleura or peritoneum characterized by poor outcome. Mesothelioma was thought to metastasize locally only via direct invasion and not have distant spread. Distant metastases were discovered mostly on post-mortem examination. The authors present a case of 62-year-old man with pleural mesothelioma and brain metastasis. Oxford University Press 2013-09 2013-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3813666/ /pubmed/24963909 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjt087 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2013. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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title Cerebral metastasis from malignant pleural mesothelioma
title_full Cerebral metastasis from malignant pleural mesothelioma
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title_short Cerebral metastasis from malignant pleural mesothelioma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813666/
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