[Acute lymphoblastic leukemia presenting with multiple hemorrhagic brain metastases (case report)]

Tani Girisim Radyol. 2004 Jun;10(2):119-20.
[Article in Turkish]

Abstract

Intracranial metastases represent 7-17% of all brain tumors. Renal cell carcinoma, thyroid cancer, choriocarcinoma, melanoma, retinoblastoma, lung cancer and breast cancer have a propensity for producing hemorrhagic brain metastases. Leukemias have also been rarely reported to cause hemorrhagic brain metastases. We describe an 18-year-old girl diagnosed as acute lymphoblastic leukemia presenting with multiple hemorrhagic brain metastases. MRI demonstrated high signal intensity lesions on both T1- and T2-weighted images which were characteristic for extracellular methemoglobin and consistent with hemorrhagic metastases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Brain Neoplasms / complications
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Brain Neoplasms / secondary
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Hemorrhages / etiology*
  • Intracranial Hemorrhages / pathology
  • Leukemia, Lymphoid / diagnosis*
  • Leukemia, Lymphoid / pathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging