Cerebellar, brainstem and spinal cord metastases from esophageal cancer following radiotherapy: A case report and literature review.

[esophageal carcinoma]

Cerebellar , brainstem and spinal cord metastases from esophageal cancer following radiotherapy are extremely rare . The current study presents the case of a 74 -year -old male who was admitted to the Zhejiang Cancer Hospital (Hangzhou , China ) with a poorly -differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma of the esophagus . Following radiotherapy , multiple abnormal signals in the brainstem and spinal cord were found on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI ). Following palliative radiochemotherapy , the clinical symptoms and abnormal MRI signals in the brainstem and spinal cord were found to improve . This case revealed that brain metastasis from esophageal carcinoma may occur simultaneously with brainstem and spinal cord metastases .