Bony metastases from malignant intra-cranial astrocytoma.
Extra-cranial skeletal metastases from primary intra-cranial gliomas are very rare. A case is reported of a patient who developed widespread skeletal deposits fifteen months after the excision of a cystic frontal astrocytoma.
D000328:Adult; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009192:Myelography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed