Brain metastasis from colorectal cancer
โ Scribed by Hisashi Onodera; Satoshi Nagayama; Tsuyoshi Tachibana; Akihisa Fujimoto; Masayuki Imamura
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 288 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0179-1958
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Four cases of prostatic carcinoma with metastasis to brain are described. Two of those cases are diagnosed antemortem. Our experience from postmortem case studies and review of the literature point to the fact that metastasis to brain from a prostatic cancer remains a rare occurrence.
## Abstract Eighteen of 78 patients (23%) with metastatic colorectal cancer developed clinically significant metastases to the central nervous system (CNS). The patients developing CNS metastases had a decreased likelihood of associated liver metastases compared to the patients without CNS metastas