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Two Cases with Metastatic Intracerebral Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma Teruyoshi KAGEJI 1 , Seiji KANNUKI 1 , Hideki HONDO 1 , Keizo MATSUMOTO 1 , Muneo NAKAMURA 2 , Shigeru YAMASHITA 3 1Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima 2The Second Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima 3Department of Neurological Surgery, Kohchi Red Cross Hospital Keyword: Alveolar Soft part sarcoma , Metastatic brain tumor , Surgical treatment pp.627-632
Published Date 1995/7/10
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1436901054
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The alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS) is a rare soft tissue tumor which usually occurs in the lower extrem-ity of young girls. The incidence of metastasis is said to be highest in the lung (38%), and second highest in the bone and brain (33%). This report describes two cases of metastatic intracerebral alveolar soft part sarcoma, originating in the lower extremity.

A female patient noticed a painless swelling in her right leg at the age of 11, and 10 years later she under-went total removal of the tumor. The diagnosis was alveolar soft part sarcoma. At 37 she was admitted to our service with a diagnosis of cerebral metastasis in the left frontal lobe. Since then she has undergone sur-gical removal 4 times for recurrent cerebral metastasis and twice for lung metastasis. Now she is 55 years old and doing well except for mild left hemiparesis. She survives without cerebral or general metastasis 44 years following the onset of the sarcoma in her right leg and 18 years following the onset of the metastatic brain tumor.

A 30-year-old man, who noticed a painless swelling in his left thigh in January 1991, underwent total re-moval of the tumor and the diagnosis was alveolar soft part sarcoma. He was admitted to our service with no neurological deficits in October 1992, but a CT scan showed a metastatic brain tumor in the left parieto-occipital region. Total removal of this metastatic brain tumor was successfully performed in November 1992. However, he died because of multiple brain and lung metastasis in February, 1994. Only 18 cases of metastatic intracerebral ASPS have been reported in Japan. ASPS shows very slow growth in spite of the sarcoma, but metastatic lesions of the in-tracerebral region have demonstrated rapid growth. We recommend radical removal of the tumor as the best management. Histogenesis of ASPS is controversial, but its origin from muscle is supported by recent im-munohistochemical findings.


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