Cerebral metastasis from choriocarcinoma and oncotic aneurysms. Case report

Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 1993 Jun;51(2):275-80. doi: 10.1590/s0004-282x1993000200023.

Abstract

Cerebral metastasis occur in 10 to 20% of patients with choriocarcinoma. We describe the twelfth patient with oncotic aneurysms from choriocarcinoma verified by cerebral angiography. The importance to consider this disease in a woman of childbearing age who develop an intracerebral hemorrhage or a lesion with mass effect is emphasized, as well as laboratial and radiological characteristics. Therapeutic approaches with chemotherapic agents, surgery and irradiation are discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brain Neoplasms / complications
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Cerebral Angiography
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage / diagnostic imaging
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage / etiology
  • Choriocarcinoma / complications
  • Choriocarcinoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Choriocarcinoma / secondary*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / diagnostic imaging
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / etiology*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Uterine Neoplasms / pathology*