[Secondary intraspinal localizations of glioblastoma. Apropos of a case]

Neurochirurgie. 1995;41(5):363-6.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Metastasis of intracranial glioblastomas have been described for the first time more than fifty years ago. They are exceptional and seem to develop clinically in less than 2% of cases. In fact, microscopic metastasis (necropsic series) of such glioblastomas are much more frequent: from 6% for supratentorial glioblastomas to 60% in infratentorial ones; but patients usually die before clinical symptoms appear. The authors report on an intraspinal metastasis which appeared clinically four years after the removal of a frontal glioblastoma. The metastasis was subdural, T3. Preoperative radiological data (CT-scan, MRI) evoked a meningioma, while surgical findings favoured the diagnosis of neurinoma. The diagnosis of glioblastoma metastasis was suggested by intra-operative pathological findings, and confirmed a few days later on smears and stains studies.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Brain Neoplasms / therapy
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Female
  • Frontal Lobe*
  • Glioblastoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Glioblastoma / pathology*
  • Glioblastoma / therapy
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Middle Aged
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms / therapy
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed