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BRAIN METASTASES

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 medium cerebral artery distribution at the cortex, 20% in posterior fossa. See also: haemorrhagic metastasis.
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