[Bladder carcinoma and brain metastases before systemic chemotherapy].

Clinico-pathological study of six patients with cerebral metastasis from vesical carcinoma with no prior administration of systemic chemotherapy. In two cases the symptoms of intracranial mass were the initial reason for infiltrant vesical carcinoma examination. Despite the rarity of such occurrence, the possibility of vesical tumours showing in such a way must be taken into account. The singularity of cerebral metastatic seeding throughout the natural history of a vesical neoplasia is analyzed. Also, a review is made of the factors hypothetically responsible for the increase of cerebral metastasis establishment following current chemotherapy.