title: Spinal canal metastases: a late complication of glioblastoma.
abstract: The case of a 41 year old woman with a cerebral glioblastoma is reported who developed paraplegia due to a pathologically confirmed spinal metastasis. This and 22 other case histories from the literature suggest that spinal seeding is a rather late complication of cerebral glioblastomas that can be diagnosed on clinical grounds with the help of myelography, CSF cytology and MR imaging.
authors.affiliation: Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsklinikum Rudolf Virchow, Abteilung für Neurologie, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schwaninger
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Patt
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Henningsen
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000532:radiotherapy; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000532:radiotherapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000209:etiology; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed