Brain Metastasis in a Young Patient with Uterine Carcinosarcoma

Uterine carcinosarcoma occurs almost exclusively in post-menopausal women and often carries high rates of disease recurrence and mortality. Central nervous system involvement is extremely rare with less than 10 reported cases in the literature. Here we present a young pre-menopausal patient with met...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Curēus (Palo Alto, CA) CA), 2019-06, Vol.11 (6), p.e5010
Hauptverfasser:	Katiyar, Vatsala, Araujo, Tiago, Farooq, Muhammad Z, Vohra, Ishaan, Gupta, Shweta
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abdomen Age Antigens Bladder Brain cancer Cancer therapies Case reports Chemotherapy Edema Endometrial cancer Internal Medicine Lymphatic system Medical imaging Metastasis Nervous system Oncology Radiation Oncology Radiation therapy Surgery
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Zusammenfassung:	Uterine carcinosarcoma occurs almost exclusively in post-menopausal women and often carries high rates of disease recurrence and mortality. Central nervous system involvement is extremely rare with less than 10 reported cases in the literature. Here we present a young pre-menopausal patient with metastatic malignant mixed Mullerian tumor who developed cerebral metastasis while on systemic chemotherapy.
ISSN:	2168-8184 2168-8184
DOI:	10.7759/cureus.5010