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A case of brain metastatic hypernephroma presenting as multiloculated blood-fluid levels is described and the mechanism of their formation discussed.
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Kaiser, M.C., Rodesch, G. & Capesius, P. Blood-fluid levels in multiloculated cystic brain metastasis of a hypernephroma. Neuroradiology 25, 339–341 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00439215
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