Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Prostate cancer spread inside brain tumor in French bulldog
By Ros, C et al.·Published in Journal of comparative pathology·2018·Hospital Clí, Spain·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Tumour-to-Tumour Metastasis Phenomenon: Metastatic Prostatic Adenocarcinoma within an Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma in the Brain of a Dog.
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Plain-English summary
A 10-year-old male French bulldog was brought in after experiencing clusters of seizures. Imaging tests showed a large mass in the brain that was pressing on surrounding tissue, and further scans revealed cancer spread throughout the body. Unfortunately, the dog was euthanized, and a post-mortem examination confirmed that the brain tumor was a metastasis from prostate cancer. This case highlights a rare occurrence of one type of tumor spreading to another in a dog's brain.
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Abstract
A 10-year-old entire male French bulldog was presented following clusters of generalized tonic-clonic epileptic seizures. Neurolocalization was consistent with a lesion in the left forebrain. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain revealed a large, ill-defined, intra-axial, space-occupying lesion at the level of the left temporal and parietal lobes, causing marked compression of the adjacent parenchyma. Computed tomography of the thorax and abdomen was consistent with disseminated metastatic disease. The dog was humanely destroyed and subjected to necropsy examination. Histological examination of the brain revealed a metastasis of prostatic carcinoma within an anaplastic oligodendroglioma in the left forebrain. To the author's knowledge, this is the first report describing clinical, imaging and histopathological features of an intracranial tumour-to-tumour metastasis in the brain of a dog.
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