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Neurosurgical Interventions for Intracranial Metastases
1987
In any neurosurgical material among the space-occupying neoplastic lesions in the brain there is an average frequency between 3 and 5% of deposits from malignant tumors of extracranial origin, i.e. metastases1,2,7. Definite regularities exist as regards the frequency with which particular tumors give rise to cerebral metastases and likewise as regards the incidence of solitary metastases (about 50% of cases), while in about a half of these patients we find several metastases. These lesions can involve the cerebral hemispheres, as well as the cerebellum and the brain stem26,28.
Solitary metastasis from melanoma causing bowel perforation
2015
Skin melanoma can metastasize to any organ or tissue. The median survival in patient with intestinal metastases is inferior to 7 months compared to other sites metastasis. A wide intestinal resection including the resection of the mesentery with lymph nodes remains the main treatment due to the low morbidity and mortality rate it is also associated with.We took under analysis a recent case of acute abdomen for small bowel perforation from intestinal metastases in a patient with metastatic melanoma who was under treatment with Pemrolizumab. A bowel resection was performed and no other lesions were found in the abdominal examination. However, the chemotherapy was stopped due to the advanced a…