Hemorrhagic metastasis to brain from a primary mucoepidermoid carcinoma of esophagus

Yatish Agarwal, Sagar Tomar, Amit Kumar, Avneet S Chawla, Vinod Gupta, Poonam Khambra

Astrocyte 2016 3(3):165-167

Primary esophageal cancers rarely metastasize to the brain. On the rare occasion that such an event occurs, the histological cell type is mostly a squamous cell carcinoma. These brain metastases are picked up on contrast computed tomography typically as multiple ring enhancing hypodense lesions. In the histological spectrum of esophageal cancers, a mucoepidermoid carcinoma is rather rare. The possibility of it metastasizing to the brain is rarer still. That such a metastatic lesion be hemorrhagic is truly atypical, yet this case in point uncovers such an event, where an upper esophageal mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a 55-year-old male led to a hemorrhagic metastasis in the vermis of the cerebellum.

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