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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Autores principales: Katiyar, Vatsala, Araujo, Tiago, Farooq, Muhammad Z, Vohra, Ishaan, Gupta, Shweta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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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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author Katiyar, Vatsala
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Farooq, Muhammad Z
Vohra, Ishaan
Gupta, Shweta
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description 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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spelling pubmed-67132382019-09-06 Brain Metastasis in a Young Patient with Uterine Carcinosarcoma Katiyar, Vatsala Araujo, Tiago Farooq, Muhammad Z Vohra, Ishaan Gupta, Shweta Cureus Internal Medicine 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. Cureus 2019-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6713238/ /pubmed/31497440 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5010 Text en Copyright © 2019, Katiyar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Katiyar, Vatsala
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Brain Metastasis in a Young Patient with Uterine Carcinosarcoma
title Brain Metastasis in a Young Patient with Uterine Carcinosarcoma
title_full Brain Metastasis in a Young Patient with Uterine Carcinosarcoma
title_fullStr Brain Metastasis in a Young Patient with Uterine Carcinosarcoma
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title_short Brain Metastasis in a Young Patient with Uterine Carcinosarcoma
title_sort brain metastasis in a young patient with uterine carcinosarcoma
topic Internal Medicine
url 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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