Abstract
We report a case of a 43-year-old man with known metastatic melanoma and two intracranial tumors, one of which was resected and confirmed to be melanoma. At autopsy, the second lesion was found to be a central neurocytoma harboring metastatic melanoma. To our knowledge, this represents the first reported case of tumor-to-tumor metastasis to a central neurocytoma. The most common pattern of tumor-to-tumor metastasis for intracranial neoplasms, in which an aggressive high-grade malignancy serves as the source tumor and a more indolent neoplasm serves as the recipient tumor, is affirmed by the present novel example.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 209-214 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of neuro-oncology |
Volume | 61 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2003 |
Keywords
- Central neurocytoma
- Melanoma
- Tumor-to-tumor metastasis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Oncology
- Neurology
- Clinical Neurology
- Cancer Research