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| Year : 2014 | Volume
: 60
| Issue : 4 | Page : 403-405 |
Tumor to tumor metastasis: Adenocarcinoma of lung metastatic to meningioma
A Talukdar1, D Khanra1, S Mukhopadhay1, D Bose2
1 Department of General Medicine, Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Pathology, Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. A Talukdar
Department of General Medicine, Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.143974
Tumor-to-tumor metastasis (T2Tmets) is an established entity but often overlooked and underdiagnosed. Merely 84 such cases are reported in literature till date. The authors here describe a 65-year-old man presenting with first episode of focal seizure and incidentally turned out to be a case of adenocarcinoma of lung metastatic to a meningioma. The diagnosis of T2Tmets was based solely on histopathological criteria. Recent advent of brain imaging revolutionized its diagnosis and it has moved from the realm of thologists to that of radiologists. In our case, diagnosis was also established by immunohistochemistry.
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