부산대학교 도서관

Metastatic tumors of the brain can rarely occur in the patients aged more than seventy and a carcinoma of the gall bladder seldom metastsizes to the brain constituting only 0.3% of all metastatic cerebral tumors.This is a report of an autopsy case of an old woman aged 75 with chief complaints of unconciousness and myoclonic seizure, who died after four months of admission. Autopsy findings revealed a cerebral metastasis of a carcinoma of the gall bladder, which invaded the left brachium pontis, corpus restiforme, left dorsal part of the pons and the medulla.Myoclonie seizure in this case might be explained by the interruption of the so-called Guillain-Mollarets triangle, the angles of which are at the red nucleus, inferior olive, and dentate nucleus.