[Metastatic brain lesion following gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the stomach complicated by coma.( A case report and literature review)]. / Metastaticheskoe porazhenie golovnogo mozga gastrointestinal'noi stromal'noi opukhol'yu zheludka, oslozhnivsheesya razvitiem komatoznogo sostoyaniya. (Opisanie sluchaya i obzor literatury).

The authors present an extremely rare case of metastatic brain lesion in a patient with gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the stomach. There are literature data on 23 cases of metastatic lesions of the brain, skull and soft tissues of the head in similar patients. Atypical localization of metastases can lead to some diagnostic difficulties, unreasonable cancellation of chemotherapy and delayed surgical treatment. A feature of our observation was postoperative coma determined by the features of the underlying disease.