[Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis from thyorid carcioma: case report].
We report a case of intramedullary spinal cord metastasis from thyroid cancer in a 70-year-old woman complaining for three months an intense cervical pain, without motor or sensitive deficits. Six months before the onset of symptoms, the patient underwent total thyroidectomy for a thyroid cancer. Magnetic resonance imaging with gadolinium enhancement showed an intramedullary spinal cord lesion. A partial resection of the medullar tumor was performed and the pathological findings showed an metastatic adenocarcinoma. Post operatively the patient developed a left crural monoplegia.
de Almeida Holanda
Maurus Marques
MM
Neurocirurgião, Hospital Santa Paula, and Interno de Medicina, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil. maurus@zaitek.com.br
de Andrade
Emerson Magno Fernandes
EM
da Silva
José Alberto Gonçalves
JA
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013965:Thyroidectomy