| CASE IN POINT - CLINICS IN GASTROINTESTINAL ONCO-RADIOLOGY |
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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 165-167 |
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Hemorrhagic metastasis to brain from a primary mucoepidermoid carcinoma of esophagus
Yatish Agarwal1, Sagar Tomar1, Amit Kumar1, Avneet S Chawla2, Vinod Gupta3, Poonam Khambra4
1 Department of Radiodiagnosis, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India
2 Department of Surgery, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India
3 Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India
4 Department of Pathology, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Yatish Agarwal
Department of Radiodiagnosis, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/astrocyte.astrocyte_3_17
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Primary esophageal cancers rarely metastasize to the brain. On the rare occasion that such an event occurs, the histological cell type is mostly a squamous cell carcinoma. These brain metastases are picked up on contrast computed tomography typically as multiple ring enhancing hypodense lesions. In the histological spectrum of esophageal cancers, a mucoepidermoid carcinoma is rather rare. The possibility of it metastasizing to the brain is rarer still. That such a metastatic lesion be hemorrhagic is truly atypical, yet this case in point uncovers such an event, where an upper esophageal mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a 55-year-old male led to a hemorrhagic metastasis in the vermis of the cerebellum. |
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