Brain Metastasis from Invasive Thymoma Mimicking Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Case Report

A 55-year-old man with an 8-year history of invasive thymoma presented with sudden onset of left hemiparesis. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging showed a right frontal lobe intracerebral hemorrhage and the possibility of brain metastasis could not be rejected. The patient u...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Neurologia medico-chirurgica 2014, Vol.54(8), pp.673-676
Hauptverfasser:	HARYU, Shinya, SAITO, Atsushi, INOUE, Mizuho, SANNOHE, Seiya, KUROTAKI, Hidekachi, KON, Hiroyuki, SASAKI, Tatsuya, NISHIJIMA, Michiharu
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	brain metastasis Brain Neoplasms - diagnosis Brain Neoplasms - pathology Brain Neoplasms - secondary Cerebral Hemorrhage - diagnosis Cerebral Hemorrhage - pathology Diagnosis, Differential Frontal Lobe - pathology hemorrhagic metastasis Humans invasive thymoma Magnetic Resonance Imaging Male Middle Aged Neoplasm Invasiveness thymic carcinoma Thymoma - diagnosis Thymoma - pathology Thymoma - secondary Tomography, X-Ray Computed tumor hemorrhage
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Zusammenfassung:	A 55-year-old man with an 8-year history of invasive thymoma presented with sudden onset of left hemiparesis. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging showed a right frontal lobe intracerebral hemorrhage and the possibility of brain metastasis could not be rejected. The patient underwent removal of the hematoma. Histological examination showed brain metastasis from invasive thymoma. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of hemorrhagic brain metastasis from invasive thymoma (non-cancerous) mimicking intracerebral hemorrhage.
ISSN:	0470-8105 1349-8029
DOI:	10.2176/nmc.cr2012-0430