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A 56-year-old black woman had 3 months of tinnitus and then left arm and leg paresthesias. Over the past month, she has experienced short-term memory loss, expressive aphasia, change in mood, and impaired calculation ability. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a solitary large frontotemporal tumor with surrounding edema, and a subsequent craniotomy revealed adenocarcinoma. Postoperatively, her moods have been more stable. Chest X-rays and breast examination were normal. An ovarian cyst and a colonic polyp were removed in the past.
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Sagerman, R.H. (1994). Adenocarcinoma Metastatic to the Brain. In: Kagan, A.R., Steckel, R.J. (eds) Practical Approaches to Cancer Invasion and Metastases. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84885-8_39
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