Intracranial metastasis from a spinal cord primitive neuroectodermal tumor: case report.
A patient with intracranial seeding from a spinal cord primitive neuroectodermal tumor with ependymal differentiation is presented. The first and second stages of intracranial dissemination were well controlled by a combination of irradiation and chemotherapy. The authors review previously published cases and discuss the possible mechanism of seeding from the spinal cord to the intracranial region.
Ogasawara
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Department of Neurosurgery, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan.
Kiya
K
K
Kurisu
K
K
Muttaqin
Z
Z
Uozumi
T
T
Sugiyama
K
K
Kawamoto
Y
Y
Iida
K
K
D000293:Adolescent; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed