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Mehmet Turgut1, Orhan Akyüz, Firüzan Kaçar
1Department of Neurosurgery, Adnan Menderes University School of Medicine, Aydin, Turkey. drmturgut@yahoo.com
Abstract:
We present a patient with a solitary cerebral metastasis from a transitional cell carcinoma of the right renal pelvis in the right occipital lobe with intratumoral hemorrhage. Despite aggressive multimodality management the patient died within 3 months of presentation due to widespread systemic disease.
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