Multiple diverse intracranial and intramedullary spinal tumors. Report of a case.
A case of spinal ependymoma diagnosed 26 years after the removal of an acoustic neurinoma in a patient free of von Recklinghausen's disease is described. The extreme rarity of such a finding and the pathogenetic hypotheses regarding multiple primary tumors of the nervous system are discussed at the light of the literature.
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Clinica Neurologica II, University of Turin, Italy.
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D004806:Ependymoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D009464:Neuroma, Acoustic / Q000473:pathology*; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*