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. 2018 Dec 6;10:6743–6756. doi: 10.2147/CMAR.S167924

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A 24-year-old female patient diagnosed with ER-positive, PR-positive, HER2-negative invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast, with a complaint of headache.

Notes: The skull station in the FLAIR and T2 sequences in the axial plane (A and B) shows an expansive, heterogeneous lesion with solid peripheral areas and a central cystic/hemorrhagic portion, associated with perilesional edema, located in the parietal lobe. Brain metastases of breast and lung cancers may display areas of cystic degeneration, as in this case. ADC map in the axial plane (C and D) also demonstrates a metastatic lesion with diffusion restriction in right parietal bone.

Abbreviations: ADC, apparent diffusion coefficient; FLAIR, fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery.