A Case of Metastatic CNS Melanoma of Unknown Primary Presenting with Seizures

Seizures are a common occurrence. The goal of evaluating a seizure is to identify the etiology and to determine the likelihood of recurrence as well as guide management. We present a unique presentation of a 47-year-old female that presented with late onset seizures admitted due to status epilepticu...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Viva, Aboulenain, Samar, Mohammed, Shawn, Perez Parra, Sahyli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8758325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35035488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/3099750
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author Nguyen, Viva
Aboulenain, Samar
Mohammed, Shawn
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description Seizures are a common occurrence. The goal of evaluating a seizure is to identify the etiology and to determine the likelihood of recurrence as well as guide management. We present a unique presentation of a 47-year-old female that presented with late onset seizures admitted due to status epilepticus. Brain magnetic resonance indicated diffuse supratentorial hemorrhagic lesions. Neurological workup including brain vessel imaging, CT chest, abdomen, and pelvis as well as CSF and serological workup for vasculitis failed to demonstrate the cause of her brain lesions. Ultimately, a brain biopsy showed metastatic melanoma of unknown primary origin.
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spelling pubmed-87583252022-01-14 A Case of Metastatic CNS Melanoma of Unknown Primary Presenting with Seizures Nguyen, Viva Aboulenain, Samar Mohammed, Shawn Perez Parra, Sahyli Case Rep Med Case Report Seizures are a common occurrence. The goal of evaluating a seizure is to identify the etiology and to determine the likelihood of recurrence as well as guide management. We present a unique presentation of a 47-year-old female that presented with late onset seizures admitted due to status epilepticus. Brain magnetic resonance indicated diffuse supratentorial hemorrhagic lesions. Neurological workup including brain vessel imaging, CT chest, abdomen, and pelvis as well as CSF and serological workup for vasculitis failed to demonstrate the cause of her brain lesions. Ultimately, a brain biopsy showed metastatic melanoma of unknown primary origin. Hindawi 2022-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8758325/ /pubmed/35035488 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/3099750 Text en Copyright © 2022 Viva Nguyen et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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