Anaplastic oligodendroglioma with drop metastasis to the spinal cord.
Although cerebrospinal fluid spread by malignant brain tumors is well recognised, cases of drop metastasis to spinal cord by intracranial oligodendroglial tumors have only been rarely described. We described a 61-year-old man who developed diffuse spinal metastases and cord compression 20 months after resection of a frontal lobe anaplastic oligodendrogliomas. To our knowledge, this represents the eighth recorded case in the literature.
Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong. hkng@cuhk.edu.hk
Ho-Keung
HK
Ng
David T F
DT
Sun
Wai-Sang
WS
Poon
D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009837:Oligodendroglioma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000209:etiology*; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*