Neurosurgical Treatment of Breast Cancer Metastases to the Neurocranium
Figure 1
(a)–(c) 77-year-old femal with aphasia resulting from breast cancer dural metastasis, (a) preoperative T1-weighted MRI showing contrast enhancement of a left parietal dural tumor. (b) Preoperative CT scan shows bone erosion (arrow). (c) Postoperative CT scan documents the removal of the dural mass and the infiltrated bone which has been substituted by bone cement cranioplasty. (d) T1-weighted MRI showing contrast-enhancing breast cancer skull base metastasis in the clival region occurring in a 45-year-old female with known breast cancer and diplopia (arrow). (e, f) MRI of a 69-year-old female with right occipital breast cancer brain metastases. (e) T1-weighted MRI shows a ring-like contrast-enhancing lesion (arrow). (f) T2-weighted MRI shows the lesion with significant peritumoral finger-like edema (arrows).
