Lassman Andrew B, Bruce Jeffrey N, Fetell Michael R
Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Neurology. 2006 Oct 10;67(7):1303-4. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000238516.29603.33.
We identified 10 patients with symptomatic metastases to the pineal gland. We present the clinical and radiographic findings in this syndrome. Leptomeningeal metastases occur frequently and are a poor prognostic factor. In all cases, the primary cancer was clinically silent, either in remission (six cases) or previously undiagnosed (four cases). Hence, metastatic disease, albeit uncommon, should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pineal tumors.
我们确定了10例有症状的松果体转移瘤患者。我们展示了该综合征的临床和影像学表现。软脑膜转移很常见，是一个不良预后因素。在所有病例中，原发癌在临床上均无表现，要么处于缓解期（6例），要么此前未被诊断出（4例）。因此，尽管转移瘤并不常见，但在松果体肿瘤的鉴别诊断中应考虑到。
