A case report of gastric cancer with brain metastasis: Rare peripheral nervous system symptoms

Gastric cancer with brain metastasis is rare. The present study reports a case of gastric cancer with isolated brain metastasis 1 year after gastrectomy. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no prior reports of solitary brain metastasis from gastric cancer with peripheral nervous system sym...

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Published in:Oncology letters 2016-04, Vol.11 (4), p.2893-2895
Main Authors: YANG, GE-LIANG, LUO, TIAN-HANG, ZHANG, HUI-QING, LING, CHANG-QUAN, LI, BAI
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anemia
Brain cancer
brain metastasis
Brain tumors
Cancer therapies
Care and treatment
Case reports
Case studies
Chemotherapy
Complications and side effects
Development and progression
Family medical history
Gastric cancer
Laboratories
Lymphatic system
Medical imaging
Medical prognosis
Metastasis
Nervous system
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Oncology
Patients
peripheral nervous system symptoms
Radiation therapy
Stomach cancer
Surgery
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Summary:Gastric cancer with brain metastasis is rare. The present study reports a case of gastric cancer with isolated brain metastasis 1 year after gastrectomy. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no prior reports of solitary brain metastasis from gastric cancer with peripheral nervous system symptoms. A distal gastrectomy was performed on a 60-year-old male patient with gastric cancer in November 2012. Postoperative pathological analysis revealed a moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma with tumor invasion into the serosa and metastasis to one dissected lymph node. No abnormalities were found at follow-up examination. However, a tumor representing metastasis to the brain was recognized by a cranial enhanced magnetic resonance imaging examination 1 year after gastrectomy, which was performed when the patient exhibited numbness and thigmesthesia. The patient was administered 30 Gy of stereotactic radiotherapy, delivered in 5 fractions. The patient succumbed to disease 10 months subsequent to undergoing radiotherapy. This case report suggests that gastric cancer may re-present as brain metastasis with peripheral nervous system symptoms.
ISSN:1792-1074
1792-1082
DOI:10.3892/ol.2016.4288