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JACQUES B. WALLACH, M.D.; SANFORD EDBERG, M.D.

AMA Arch Neurol. 1959;1(2):191-194.

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Introduction

The occurrence of multiple primary tumors in one patient has been noted frequently and is no longer considered remarkable. However, metastasis of cancer to another primary tumor is distinctly uncommon. Only five previous instances of metastasis to primary intracranial tumors have been reported. Osterberg¹ found three cases of metastatic carcinoma in meningioma; in two the metastasis originated from a primary site in the breast, and in one, from the bronchus. He added two cases. One patient was a 51-year-old white man with symptoms of a brain tumor. At craniotomy a meningioma was removed, which on microscopic examination contained large clear cells. The diagnosis was renalcell carcinoma metastatic to a meningioma; this could not be confirmed by further clinical study, and autopsy was not permitted. The second patient was a 71-year-old white man who died of bronchogenic carcinoma with widespread metastases. At autopsy an incidental parasagittal meningioma was found . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec. 2, 1958.

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