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A rare case of metastatic colon cancer to the pineal region: A case report

BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the third most leading cause of death in the United States with brain being a rare site for metastasis and the pineal region being a rarer site to manifest. CASE DESCRIPTION: We present a rare case of a 72-year-old male patient with p...

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Autores principales: Kawtharani, Sarah, Moussalem, Charbel, El Houshiemy, Mohamad, Horanieh, Elias, Najjar, Marwan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Scientific Scholar 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9610188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36324963
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_698_2022
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author Kawtharani, Sarah
Moussalem, Charbel
El Houshiemy, Mohamad
Horanieh, Elias
Najjar, Marwan
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description BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the third most leading cause of death in the United States with brain being a rare site for metastasis and the pineal region being a rarer site to manifest. CASE DESCRIPTION: We present a rare case of a 72-year-old male patient with pineal region tumor and obstructive hydrocephalus for which an endoscopic third ventriculostomy was done with biopsy of the tumor showing primary colorectal origin in a patient known to be previously healthy. CONCLUSION: Intracranial metastasis to the pineal region is considered rare especially in cases without widely spread systematic cancer or without presence of other metastatic lesions in the brain. The case we presented suggests that we should consider pineal region metastasis as part of our differential whenever we encounter patients with an isolated pineal lesion. Endoscopic third ventriculostomy can be a better treatment option to treat obstructive hydrocephalus caused by the lesion potentially avoiding peritoneal dissemination.
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spelling pubmed-96101882022-11-01 A rare case of metastatic colon cancer to the pineal region: A case report Kawtharani, Sarah Moussalem, Charbel El Houshiemy, Mohamad Horanieh, Elias Najjar, Marwan Surg Neurol Int Case Report BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the third most leading cause of death in the United States with brain being a rare site for metastasis and the pineal region being a rarer site to manifest. CASE DESCRIPTION: We present a rare case of a 72-year-old male patient with pineal region tumor and obstructive hydrocephalus for which an endoscopic third ventriculostomy was done with biopsy of the tumor showing primary colorectal origin in a patient known to be previously healthy. CONCLUSION: Intracranial metastasis to the pineal region is considered rare especially in cases without widely spread systematic cancer or without presence of other metastatic lesions in the brain. The case we presented suggests that we should consider pineal region metastasis as part of our differential whenever we encounter patients with an isolated pineal lesion. Endoscopic third ventriculostomy can be a better treatment option to treat obstructive hydrocephalus caused by the lesion potentially avoiding peritoneal dissemination. Scientific Scholar 2022-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9610188/ /pubmed/36324963 http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_698_2022 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Surgical Neurology International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Kawtharani, Sarah
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El Houshiemy, Mohamad
Horanieh, Elias
Najjar, Marwan
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title A rare case of metastatic colon cancer to the pineal region: A case report
title_full A rare case of metastatic colon cancer to the pineal region: A case report
title_fullStr A rare case of metastatic colon cancer to the pineal region: A case report
title_full_unstemmed A rare case of metastatic colon cancer to the pineal region: A case report
title_short A rare case of metastatic colon cancer to the pineal region: A case report
title_sort rare case of metastatic colon cancer to the pineal region: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9610188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36324963
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_698_2022
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