Ng Ho-Keung, Sun David T F, Poon Wai-Sang
Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.
Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2002 Sep;104(4):383-6. doi: 10.1016/s0303-8467(02)00011-2.
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.