Breast carcinoma metastasized to vestibular schwannoma: A rare case of tumor‐to‐tumor metastasis and literature review | Zendy

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Breast carcinoma metastasized to vestibular schwannoma: A rare case of tumor‐to‐tumor metastasis and literature review

Author(s) -

Lua BoonKee,

Lieu AnnShung,

Hwang ShiuhLin

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

the kaohsiung journal of medical sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.439

H-Index - 36

eISSN - 2410-8650

pISSN - 1607-551X

DOI - 10.1016/j.kjms.2012.02.007

Subject(s) - medicine , schwannoma , metastasis , vestibular system , breast tumor , pathology , oncology , radiology , breast cancer , cancer

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.

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