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Case Reports
. 2010 Apr;97(2):295-9.
doi: 10.1007/s11060-009-0025-z. Epub 2009 Oct 6.

Pituitary metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma

Alberto Feletti  1 , Elisabetta Marton, Sabrina Rossi, Fabio Canal, Pierluigi Longatti, Domenico Billeci
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Case Reports

Pituitary metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma

Alberto Feletti et al. J Neurooncol. 2010 Apr.

Abstract

Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a malignant neuroendocrine tumor of the skin that demonstrates a remarkable tendency to metastasize. However, only a few cases of MCC brain metastases have been reported in the literature. We here present a unique case of a pituitary metastasis of MCC in a 65-year-old patient with a history of pituitary adenoma. This case is particularly novel due to the fact that the primary site of the MCC is unknown.

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