Joe Woo Hyeong, Lee Chang-Young, Kim Chang-Hyun, Ko Young San, Kim Sang Pyo, Kwon Sae Min
Department of Neurosurgery, Dongsan Medical Center, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.
Department of Pathology, Dongsan Medical Center, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.
Brain Tumor Res Treat. 2023 Jan;11(1):73-78. doi: 10.14791/btrt.2022.0042.
Tumor-to-tumor metastasis (TTM) is defined as the hematogenous metastasis within a primary host tumor from a donor neoplasm. Since there is insufficient evidence regarding the pathophysiology, clinical course, and management of TTM, there are no precise guidelines for its management. A 73-year-old female patient diagnosed with breast cancer was found to have convexity meningioma. Since the size of tumor and peritumoral brain edema increased during follow-up period, the meningioma was treated with surgical resection. Postoperatively, histopathologic examination confirmed metastasis of invasive ductal carcinoma within a secretory meningioma. The final diagnosis was TTM of breast cancer in meningioma. Here, we report a rare case of intra-meningioma metastasis and a review of literature to provide a better understanding of this rare phenomenon.
肿瘤至肿瘤转移(TTM)被定义为供体肿瘤在原发性宿主肿瘤内发生的血行转移。由于关于TTM的病理生理学、临床过程和管理的证据不足,因此尚无针对其管理的精确指南。一名73岁被诊断为乳腺癌的女性患者被发现患有凸面脑膜瘤。由于在随访期间肿瘤大小和瘤周脑水肿增加,对脑膜瘤进行了手术切除。术后,组织病理学检查证实分泌型脑膜瘤内存在浸润性导管癌转移。最终诊断为脑膜瘤内乳腺癌的TTM。在此,我们报告一例罕见的脑膜瘤内转移病例并进行文献复习,以更好地理解这一罕见现象。