Spinal canal metastases: a late complication of glioblastoma

J Neurooncol. 1992 Jan;12(1):93-8. doi: 10.1007/BF00172461.

Abstract

The case of a 41 year old woman with a cerebral glioblastoma is reported who developed paraplegia due to a pathologically confirmed spinal metastasis. This and 22 other case histories from the literature suggest that spinal seeding is a rather late complication of cerebral glioblastomas that can be diagnosed on clinical grounds with the help of myelography, CSF cytology and MR imaging.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Astrocytoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Astrocytoma / pathology*
  • Astrocytoma / physiopathology
  • Astrocytoma / radiotherapy
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Brain Neoplasms / physiopathology
  • Brain Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Paraplegia / etiology
  • Spinal Neoplasms / pathology
  • Spinal Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed