brain metastases

• 10% of intracranial mass lesions are mets
• 10-38% of pts with systemic cancer have brain mets

  adults:

  lung, breast, GU tract, colon/rectum, melanoma, sinuses

  kids:

  neuroblastoma, embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, Wilms tumor

• most in MCA distribution at the cortex
• 20% in posterior fossa

see also: hemorrhagic mets

© 2002, C.E. Kahn, Jr.
2002-04-18