Cerebral gliosarcoma, pulmonary adenoid-cystic carcinoma, and pulmonary metastatic gliosarcoma: report of an untreated case

Pathology. 1984 Apr;16(2):217-21. doi: 10.3109/00313028409059108.

Abstract

An elderly woman had a cerebral gliosarcoma with a single pulmonary metastasis, together with a separate pulmonary adenoid-cystic carcinoma. Spontaneous extraneural metastases of primary intracranial neoplasms are exceedingly unusual; so far, only 8 proven cases are recorded in the English language medical literature. The association of cerebral gliosarcoma and a pulmonary adenoid-cystic carcinoma is presumably coincidental.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic / pathology*
  • Female
  • Glioma / pathology*
  • Glioma / secondary
  • Humans
  • Lung / pathology
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Lung Neoplasms / secondary
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / pathology*