Multiple intracranial metastases of malignant melanoma with long-term survival. Case report

J Neurosurg. 1984 Mar;60(3):621-4. doi: 10.3171/jns.1984.60.3.0621.

Abstract

The authors present a case of multiple brain metastases and an extracranial secondary localization from malignant melanoma. The patient was operated on three times for the intracranial masses and had a 49-month survival with a good quality of life after the first of the three operations. She lived a total of 80 months from the time of diffusion of the primary tumor. The course of malignant melanoma is unpredictable, and long-term survival can be achieved in some cases, even in the presence of multiple brain metastases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain Neoplasms / mortality
  • Brain Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Melanoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Melanoma / mortality
  • Melanoma / secondary*
  • Melanoma / surgery
  • Quality of Life
  • Skin Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Skin Neoplasms / mortality
  • Skin Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Time Factors
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed