Brain metastases in patients with pelvic or abdominal malignancy do not prevail in the posterior fossa: a retrospective study

Pelvic and gastrointestinal tumors are generally considered to have a predilection to metastasize to the posterior fossa rather than to the supratentorial brain. Review of imaging of 100 patients with brain metastases from pelvic and gastrointestinal primary tumors and of 100 patients with brain met...

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Published in:Journal of neurology 2009-09, Vol.256 (9), p.1485-1487
Main Authors: van der Sande, J. J., van Tinteren, H., Brandsma, D., Jobsis, G. J., Boogerd, Willem
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abdomen
Abdominal Neoplasms - epidemiology
Abdominal Neoplasms - pathology
Biological and medical sciences
Brain - diagnostic imaging
Brain - pathology
Brain Neoplasms - epidemiology
Brain Neoplasms - pathology
Brain Neoplasms - secondary
Breast cancer
Effectiveness
Esophagus
Humans
Infratentorial Neoplasms - epidemiology
Infratentorial Neoplasms - pathology
Infratentorial Neoplasms - secondary
Lung cancer
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Medical imaging
Medical sciences
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Melanoma
Metastasis
Multiple sclerosis and variants. Guillain barré syndrome and other inflammatory polyneuropathies. Leukoencephalitis
Neoplasm Metastasis - diagnostic imaging
Neoplasm Metastasis - pathology
Neurology
Neuroradiology
Neurosciences
Original Communication
Ovaries
Pelvic Neoplasms - epidemiology
Pelvic Neoplasms - pathology
Retrospective Studies
Statistical analysis
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Tumors
Uterus
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Summary:Pelvic and gastrointestinal tumors are generally considered to have a predilection to metastasize to the posterior fossa rather than to the supratentorial brain. Review of imaging of 100 patients with brain metastases from pelvic and gastrointestinal primary tumors and of 100 patients with brain metastases from other primary tumors did not reveal a difference in distribution of brain metastases between the two groups of patients. So, there is no evidence that pelvic and gastrointestinal tumors metastasize preferentially to the posterior fossa.
ISSN:0340-5354
1432-1459
DOI:10.1007/s00415-009-5142-2