Spinal extradural metastasis from a medulloblastoma
Related Experiment Videos
N Altinörs1, E Senveli, N Arda
1Department of Neurosurgery, Social Security Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Neurochirurgia
|May 1, 1989
Abstract:
Medulloblastoma metastasising extraxially is a rare entity. The mechanisms that cause such spread are not fully understood. We present a patient who developed a low thoracic metastasis three years after surgical removal of a posterior fossa medulloblastoma. A spinal metastasis penetrated the dura, thus becoming extradural and from this tumour a completely extradural lumbal metastasis developed. Simultaneous local recurrences of systemic metastases were not noted.