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Vol. 4. Issue 4.
Pages 329-332 (January 1993)
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Vol. 4. Issue 4.
Pages 329-332 (January 1993)
Metástase cerebral de melanoma com localização excepcional
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R. Pereirinha, J. Lobo Antunes
Servicço de Neurocirurgía. Hospital de Santa María. Lisboa
J. Pimentel*
* Laboratorio de Neuropatología / Servicço de Neurología. Hospital de Santa María. Lisboa
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Os autores descrevem o caso de urna doente com história prévia de melanoma maligno, que apresentou um quadro de febre, cefaleias, astenia, desiquilibrio e alterações do comportamento, cuja tomografia axial computorizada cranioencefálica revelou hidrocefalia activa devido a urna lesão no 3.° ventrículo sugestiva de um quisto coloide. A lesão foi removida por via transcalosa e o exame microscópico revelou tratarse de urna metástase de melanoma.

Discutem-se os aspectos epidemiológicos, clínicos e terapeuticos desta afeção, destacando-se a localização excepcional no caso descrito.

Palavras chaves:
Melanoma
Metastase cerebral
3.° Ventrículo
Summary

We report the case of a patient with a previous bistory of melanoma who presented with a picture of fever, headache, asthenia, unbalance and behaviour abnormalities. CT sean of head showed hydrocephalus due to a lesion in the 3rd ventricle quite similar to a colloid cyst. Microscopic examination revealed it 10 be metastatic melanoma.

The epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic aspects of this tumor are reviewed, emphasizing the most unusuallocation of the lesion.

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