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Successful treatment for solitary brain metastasis from alveolar soft part sarcoma

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Following pulmonary metastases, alveolar soft part sarcoma has an unexplained predisposition to metastasize to the brain. Herein, a case of alveolar soft part sarcoma solitarily metastatic to the brain is described. A 23-year old female underwent the resection of alveolar soft part sarcoma from the right thigh. Three years after the surgery, a brain tumor was resected and pathology proved it was a metastatic alveolar soft part sarcoma. She is currently alive and well 6 years after brain surgery. Our report suggests that surgical resection for solitary brain metastasis from alveolar soft part sarcoma is an effective treatment modality.

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Wang, C.H., Lee, N. & Lee, L.S. Successful treatment for solitary brain metastasis from alveolar soft part sarcoma. J Neuro-Oncol 25, 161–166 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01057760

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