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Scalp and skull bone metastasis in cervical carcinoma—a rare entity
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide and the first in Peru; however, metastasis to the cranial scalp is extremely rare. We present the case of a 41-year-old woman diagnosed with cervical cancer IIIB, who received treatment based on concurrent pelvic radiotherapy with c...
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Cancer Intelligence
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6834395/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31921340 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2019.969 |
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author | Díaz, José Fernando Robles Zelaya, Adela Heredia Rosas, Alicia Milagros Avalos |
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description | Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide and the first in Peru; however, metastasis to the cranial scalp is extremely rare. We present the case of a 41-year-old woman diagnosed with cervical cancer IIIB, who received treatment based on concurrent pelvic radiotherapy with chemotherapy followed by brachytherapy at the primary level with complete response, developing, at 18 months, a metastatic lesion at the scalp level without evidence of recurrence in the cervix. With the rapid growth of the metastatic lesion leading to the destruction of the cranial cap, the meninges can be observed directly, without presenting to the neurological clinic. |
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spelling | pubmed-68343952020-01-09 Scalp and skull bone metastasis in cervical carcinoma—a rare entity Díaz, José Fernando Robles Zelaya, Adela Heredia Rosas, Alicia Milagros Avalos Ecancermedicalscience Case Report Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide and the first in Peru; however, metastasis to the cranial scalp is extremely rare. We present the case of a 41-year-old woman diagnosed with cervical cancer IIIB, who received treatment based on concurrent pelvic radiotherapy with chemotherapy followed by brachytherapy at the primary level with complete response, developing, at 18 months, a metastatic lesion at the scalp level without evidence of recurrence in the cervix. With the rapid growth of the metastatic lesion leading to the destruction of the cranial cap, the meninges can be observed directly, without presenting to the neurological clinic. Cancer Intelligence 2019-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6834395/ /pubmed/31921340 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2019.969 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Díaz, José Fernando Robles Zelaya, Adela Heredia Rosas, Alicia Milagros Avalos Scalp and skull bone metastasis in cervical carcinoma—a rare entity |
title | Scalp and skull bone metastasis in cervical carcinoma—a rare entity |
title_full | Scalp and skull bone metastasis in cervical carcinoma—a rare entity |
title_fullStr | Scalp and skull bone metastasis in cervical carcinoma—a rare entity |
title_full_unstemmed | Scalp and skull bone metastasis in cervical carcinoma—a rare entity |
title_short | Scalp and skull bone metastasis in cervical carcinoma—a rare entity |
title_sort | scalp and skull bone metastasis in cervical carcinoma—a rare entity |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6834395/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31921340 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2019.969 |
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