Background To describe the clinical characteristics of EATL with intracranial metastasis from cases published in literature Subjects EATL is a rare disease of the gastrointestinal tract. Intracranial metastasis associated with EATL is even rare. Six cases including one of ours were recruited in the study. Five reported cases were found between 1997 and 2012 in the English literature (table 1). Methods Ours was a 35-year-old man who presented initially with diarrhoea, and he was later confirmed to have EATL from biopsy at jejunum that showing positive in CD3, CD8 and CD56 with negative in CD4. Since diagnosis, he had received 11 cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy. He underwent laparotomy with resection and anastomosis of jejunum due to the acute abdomen. An episode of left-sided weakness after having received his 11th cycle of chemotherapy led to brain

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