101. Breast carcinoma metastasized to vestibular schwannoma: a rare case of tumor-to-tumor metastasis and literature review.
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Lua BK, Lieu AS, and Hwang SL
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- Breast Neoplasms pathology, Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast secondary, Cranial Nerve Neoplasms secondary, Female, Humans, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Complex and Mixed pathology, Neoplasms, Second Primary pathology, Neuroma, Acoustic pathology, Breast Neoplasms diagnosis, Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast diagnosis, Cranial Nerve Neoplasms diagnosis, Neoplasms, Complex and Mixed diagnosis, Neoplasms, Second Primary diagnosis, Neuroma, Acoustic diagnosis
- Abstract
Tumor-to-tumor metastasis is a well-recognized phenomenon. However, cerebellopontine angle tumor, especially vestibular schwannoma, is a rare location of metastasis, with only six cases being reported previously in English-language literature reviews. We report a case of a 57-year-old woman with underlying breast cancer (T2N3M1, stage IV) who presented with unilateral facial tics, paresthesia and hearing loss, who turned out to have vestibular schwannoma with adenocarcinoma metastasis., (Copyright © 2012. Published by Elsevier B.V.)
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- 2012
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