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Anaplastic oligodendroglioma with drop metastasis to the spinal cord
Ho-Keung Ng1, David T F Sun, Wai-Sang Poon
1Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong. hkng@cuhk.edu.hk
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
|July 26, 2002
Abstract:
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.