It has been found that the patients who suffer from lung cancer have 20% incidence of distant metastasis at diagnosis and 50% at autopsy. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is sought to exist in neurologically asymptomatic patients. Some studies have stressed the utilization of Magnetic Resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain in these NSCLC patients to detect brain metastasis for better survival outcome.
Studies have also highlighted that the survival of NSCLC patients is dependent on the lesser number of lesions detected. Although the number of the asymptomatic metastasis are comparatively lesser and smaller in size, during our clinical observations, it was found that lung cancer patients contain significant metastatic load in the brain irrespective of the stage or neurologic presentations at the time of initial appearance. Aim: To study whether the imaging pattern of brain metastasis…
