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We report a case of a 43-Year-old man with known metastatic melanoma and two intracranial tumors, one of which was resected and confirmed to be melanoma. At autopsy, the second lesion was found to be a central neurocytoma harboring metastatic melanoma. To our knowledge, this represents the first reported case of tumor-to-tumor metastasis to a central neurocytoma. The most common pattern of tumor-to-tumor metastasis for intracranial neoplasms, in which an aggressive high-grade malignancy serves as the source tumor and a more indolent neoplasm serves as the recipient tumor, is affirmed by the present novel example.
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Brown, H.M., McCutcheon, I.E., Leeds, N.E. et al. Melanoma Metastatic to Central Neurocytoma: A Novel Case of Tumor-to-tumor Metastasis. J Neurooncol 61, 209–214 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022599622949
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