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A 73-year-old man with a history of malignant orbital melanoma and prostate carcinoma was admitted for progressive visual disturbance. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed a suprasellar enhancing nodular lesion with major impingement on the anterior optical ways and sellar invasion. The extensive imaging work-up could not demonstrate with certainty its origin. Surprisingly, the transphenoidal biopsy of this patient revealed a prostate cancer metastasis outlining the importance of a histopathological diagnosis of cerebral metastases in patients with multiple malignancies when there is a doubt about the nature of the lesion.
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Ars, C., Duck, L., Baurain, JF. et al. Unusual Metastatic Features in a Patient with Concomitant Malignant Orbital Melanoma and Prostate Carcinoma. J Neurooncol 66, 361–363 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:NEON.0000014540.05737.1a
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