A 58 years old woman was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix FIGO stage IIB and was treated by concomitant radio-chemotherapy followed by simple hysterectomy. Several months later a single metastasis to the skull was diagnosed. The patient underwent craniotomy and radiotherapy and achieved a prolonged disease free survival of 20 months. Bone metastases from cervical car...

Skull metastasis from lung cancer is relatively common, yet the first presentation for this malignant disease is a rare occurrence. We herein report a case of a 54-year-old female, who had a good outcome following Whipple procedure for periampullary adenocarcinoma five years before her current presentation. During a routine follow-up, she was found to have a slowly progressive painless right pa...

BACKGROUND Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a rare vascular tumor that frequently occurs in soft tissues. Patients suffer from local recurrence and remote metastasis because of its malignant potential. Here, we present a rare case of EHE that originated from nasal cavity and invaded intracranially through the anterior skull base. CASE DESCRIPTION This is a 27-year-old woman who prese...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Skull base chordomas are clinically malignant because of the difficulty of total removal, high recurrence rate, and occasional drop metastasis. Although aggressive surgical resection and postoperative radiation have been recommended, the long-term outcome remains unsatisfactory. METHODS From 1992 to 2011, we treated 24 patients with skull base chordoma using aggressiv...

Prostate cancer is the first cause of skull metastases in men, accounting for 12-18% of all cases. This condition is generally a late event in the course of the disease, involving patients with disseminated lesions. Quite rarely is skull involvement the first and single site of distant recurrence. We report the case of a patient who developed a single skull lesion 15 years after primary treatme...