Brain Metastasis in a Young Patient with Uterine Carcinosarcoma

Uterine carcinosarcoma occurs almost exclusively in post-menopausal women and often carries high rates of disease recurrence and mortality. Central nervous system involvement is extremely rare with less than 10 reported cases in the literature. Here we present a young pre-menopausal patient with met...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Katiyar, Vatsala, Araujo, Tiago, Farooq, Muhammad Z, Vohra, Ishaan, Gupta, Shweta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6713238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31497440
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5010
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Sumario:Uterine carcinosarcoma occurs almost exclusively in post-menopausal women and often carries high rates of disease recurrence and mortality. Central nervous system involvement is extremely rare with less than 10 reported cases in the literature. Here we present a young pre-menopausal patient with metastatic malignant mixed Mullerian tumor who developed cerebral metastasis while on systemic chemotherapy.

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