Extracranial metastases of a supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumour.
Extracranial metastases from primary central nervous system (CNS) tumours have rarely been reported in the literature, and glioblastomas and medulloblastomas constitute the majority of these. The tendency of supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumours (PNET) to spread within the CNS is well-known, but few cases of extracranial metastases of supratentorial PNET have been reported. We report a 29-year-old man with a supratentorial PNET, which metastasized to his vertebral bodies and lung.
Han
Seong Rok
SR
Department of Neurosurgery, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University, 2240 Daehwa-dong, Ilsan-Seo-gu, Goyang 411-410, Korea. hsrkmj@ilsanpaik.ac.kr
Sohn
Moon Jun
MJ
Yoon
Sang Won
SW
Yee
Gi Taek
GT
Choi
Chan Young
CY
Lee
Dong Joon
DJ
Whang
Choong Jin
CJ
D000328:Adult; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005904:Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein / Q000096:biosynthesis; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D018242:Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive / Q000556:secondary*; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D015173:Supratentorial Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D005904:Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein