Spinal canal metastases: a late complication of glioblastoma.
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.
Schwaninger
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Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsklinikum Rudolf Virchow, Abteilung für Neurologie, Germany.
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Henningsen
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Schmidt
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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