A Spinal Cord Astrocytoma and Its Concurrent Osteoblastic Metastases at the Time of the Initial Diagnosis: a Case Report and Literature Review

Bone metastasis from a spinal cord astrocytoma has been reported only twice in the English medical literature. It is generally known that bone metastasis is found after the initial diagnosis with/without intervening surgery rather than being found at the time of the diagnosis of astrocytoma. The pur...

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Autores principales: Park, Ah Young, Kim, Hyunki, Chung, Tae-Sub, Yoon, Choon-Sik, Ryu, Young Hoon, Cho, Yong Eun, Moon, Eun Su, Kim, Sungjun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Radiology 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927564
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2011.12.5.620
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Sumario:Bone metastasis from a spinal cord astrocytoma has been reported only twice in the English medical literature. It is generally known that bone metastasis is found after the initial diagnosis with/without intervening surgery rather than being found at the time of the diagnosis of astrocytoma. The purpose of this article is to report for the first time a case of concurrent bone metastasis from a spinal cord astrocytoma at the time of diagnosing the spinal cord astrocytoma.

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