[Frequency of metastases to the central nervous system of pleuramesotheliomas and lung carcinomas].

Pleural mesotheliomas and bronchial carcinomas differ from each other regarding the incidence of their metastases in the central nervous system. With bronchial carcinomas in the present autopsy material, this amounted to 18%, whereas with pleural mesotheliomas, metastases were found in only 2,4% of the cases in the C.N.S.