368 Each time, the patient responded to the thera‐ py, but then relapsed. On admission, apart from a painful, fixed, and hard skin lesion on palpation at the occipital area and a weight loss of 3 kg over the past year, the patient was asymptomatic. Lab‐ oratory test results revealed an elevated serum carcinoembryonic antigen level of 25.9 ng/ml. The patient underwent chest and abdominal com‐ pu...

Skull base metastases from primary malignant tumors are relatively uncommon lesions. They usually originate from the breast, lung, prostate, skin, liver and cervix. We report a case of a 76 years old female complaining of dizziness, mild left hearing loss, tinnitus and recurring left facial paresis. A computed tomography scan of the temporal bones documented a much extended osteolytic lesion of...

1 of 3 DESCRIPTION A 62-year-old woman presented with gradual enlargement of a tumour mass on her head. She had fi rst noticed it about 2 years previously, but it had started to enlarge several months before she came to our clinic. She was alert but reported mild headache and nausea. We found a large soft and elastic tumour on the left temporal and occipital region of her head. Thyroid tumour w...

Tumors of the clivus and metastases to the clivus are very rare. Metastasis involving the clivus has previously been described in only two case reports. In skull metastasis, the breast and prostate are the most common primary foci, while metastasis from gastric carcinoma is extremely rare. A review of the English literature revealed only one published case of clivus metastases from gastric aden...

This case report describes an uncommon presentation of lung adenocarcinoma, which appeared as a skull mass. While not the first reported in medical literature, it is still rare occurrence for adenocarcinoma to present this manner. focuses on clinical and treatment elderly male patient who had progressively enlarging painful The initial imaging revealed about 5 cm soft tissue mass at dorsal midl...