Cerebral metastasis from malignant pleural mesothelioma
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Cerebral metastasis from malignant pleural mesothelioma
Malignant mesothelioma is an uncommon, highly invasive tumor derived from the mesothelial cells of pleura or peritoneum characterized by poor outcome. Mesothelioma was thought to metastasize locally only via direct invasion and not have distant spread. Distant metastases were discovered mostly on post-mortem examination. The authors present a case of 62-year-old man with pleural mesothelioma an...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Surgical Case Reports
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2042-8812
DOI: 10.1093/jscr/rjt087