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Long‐term disease‐free survival in a patient with cerebral recurrence from adenocarcinoma of the fallopian tube
Author(s) -
Shimada Chisa,
Todo Yukiharu,
Minobe Shinichiro,
Okamoto Kazuhira,
Kato Hidenori
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1447-0756
pISSN - 1341-8076
DOI - 10.1111/jog.12076
Subject(s) - medicine , brain metastasis , fallopian tube cancer , metastasis , disease , cancer , obstetrics and gynaecology , stage (stratigraphy) , adenocarcinoma , primary tumor , fallopian tube , surgery , pregnancy , ovarian cancer , paleontology , biology , genetics
Cerebral recurrence from M üllerian cancer is a rare event and prognosis of patients with such a condition is poor. We report a case of cerebral recurrence from I nternational F ederation of G ynecology and O bstetrics classification stage IV tubal cancer presenting with inguinal lymphadenopathy. The patient achieved more than 7 years' disease‐free survival after irradiation to the brain despite the inauspicious event. The present case had a rare clinical course in terms of primary site, primary symptom, failure site, and clinical outcome. Patients with brain metastasis from M üllerian cancer have a chance for long‐term survival under specified circumstances, such as solitary metastasis, no extracranial metastasis, no recurrence preceding brain metastasis and small tumor size.