Medical Definition of Brain metastases

1. 10% of intracranial mass lesions are metastasis, 10-38% of patients with systemic cancer have brain metastasis: adults: lung, breast, GU tract, colon/rectum, melanoma, sinuses. children: neuroblastoma, embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, Wilms tumour. Location: most in middle cerebral artery distribution at the cortex, 20% in posterior fossa. See also: haemorrhagic metastasis. (08 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brain Metastases

brain coral
brain dead
brain death
brain death
brain disease
brain disorder
brain doctor
brain drain
brain fever
brain herniation
brain injury
brain iron
brain laceration
brain lipid
brain mantle
brain metastases (current term)
brain murmur
brain mushroom
brain natriuretic peptide
brain neoplasm
brain oedema
brain potential
brain sand
brain science
brain stem
brain sugar
brain surgeon
brain surgery
brain tissue transplantation
brain truster

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