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Bone marrow infiltration by a parietal lobe grade III oligodendroglioma
G E Gerrard1, M G Bond, A S Jack
1Cookridge Hospital, Leeds, UK.
Clinical Oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
We report a patient with oligodendroglioma metastases 1 year after tumour debulking and postoperative radiotherapy to the parietal lobe primary. This treatment controlled the patient's tumour locally. Distant recurrence was manifest by back pain, weight loss and malaise. The serum alkaline phosphatase was raised and a bone scan showed generalized increased uptake. Bone marrow trephine revealed infiltration by oligodendroglioma. Bone marrow infiltration by gliomas is very rare. If the trephine had not been performed it might have been assumed that he had a disseminated second primary tumour.