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11437586

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-7-4
pubmed:abstractText
Dissemination of tumour cells along the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pathway has been reported mostly in medulloblastomas, germ cell tumours or high grade gliomas. Juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma (JPA) is usually a benign astrocytoma. However, drop metastases of indolent nature from intracranial tumours to the spinal cord are documented. All of the previously reported cases represent metastases of cerebellar or hypothalamic tumours spreading to the spinal cord. We document in this paper the first report of a spinal cord pilocytic astrocytoma spreading via the CSF to the cerebral meninges. A 9 year old girl had a JPA of C5 to C7 subtotally resected. Two and a half years later she presented with hydrocephalus with radiologically meningeal enhancement. The meninges were biopsied which showed metastatic JPA. The girl was relatively well 4 years after initial surgery with residual tumour. Spinal cord JPA can rarely metastasize to the cranial meninges. Similar to intracranial tumours which spread to the spinal cord, such metastatic lesions are indolent.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0967-5868
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2001 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
374-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Spinal cord pilocytic astrocytoma with cranial meningeal metastases.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China. hkng@cuhk.edu.hk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports