Cerebellar, brainstem and spinal cord metastases from esophageal cancer following radiotherapy: A case report and literature review

Cerebellar, brainstem and spinal cord metastases from esophageal cancer following radiotherapy are extremely rare. The current study presents the case of a 74-year-old male who was admitted to the Zhejiang Cancer Hospital (Hangzhou, China) with a poorly-differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma of the...

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Autores principales: ZHANG, PENG, FENG, WEI, ZHENG, XIAO, WANG, YUE-ZHEN, SHAN, GUO-PING
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Publicado: D.A. Spandidos 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4063618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24959256
http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/ol.2014.2130
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author ZHANG, PENG
FENG, WEI
ZHENG, XIAO
WANG, YUE-ZHEN
SHAN, GUO-PING
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description Cerebellar, brainstem and spinal cord metastases from esophageal cancer following radiotherapy are extremely rare. The current study presents the case of a 74-year-old male who was admitted to the Zhejiang Cancer Hospital (Hangzhou, China) with a poorly-differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma of the esophagus. Following radiotherapy, multiple abnormal signals in the brainstem and spinal cord were found on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Following palliative radiochemotherapy, the clinical symptoms and abnormal MRI signals in the brainstem and spinal cord were found to improve. This case revealed that brain metastasis from esophageal carcinoma may occur simultaneously with brainstem and spinal cord metastases.
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spelling pubmed-40636182014-06-23 Cerebellar, brainstem and spinal cord metastases from esophageal cancer following radiotherapy: A case report and literature review ZHANG, PENG FENG, WEI ZHENG, XIAO WANG, YUE-ZHEN SHAN, GUO-PING Oncol Lett Articles Cerebellar, brainstem and spinal cord metastases from esophageal cancer following radiotherapy are extremely rare. The current study presents the case of a 74-year-old male who was admitted to the Zhejiang Cancer Hospital (Hangzhou, China) with a poorly-differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma of the esophagus. Following radiotherapy, multiple abnormal signals in the brainstem and spinal cord were found on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Following palliative radiochemotherapy, the clinical symptoms and abnormal MRI signals in the brainstem and spinal cord were found to improve. This case revealed that brain metastasis from esophageal carcinoma may occur simultaneously with brainstem and spinal cord metastases. D.A. Spandidos 2014-07 2014-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4063618/ /pubmed/24959256 http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/ol.2014.2130 Text en Copyright © 2014, Spandidos Publications http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open-access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. The article may be redistributed, reproduced, and reused for non-commercial purposes, provided the original source is properly cited.
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Cerebellar, brainstem and spinal cord metastases from esophageal cancer following radiotherapy: A case report and literature review
title Cerebellar, brainstem and spinal cord metastases from esophageal cancer following radiotherapy: A case report and literature review
title_full Cerebellar, brainstem and spinal cord metastases from esophageal cancer following radiotherapy: A case report and literature review
title_fullStr Cerebellar, brainstem and spinal cord metastases from esophageal cancer following radiotherapy: A case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Cerebellar, brainstem and spinal cord metastases from esophageal cancer following radiotherapy: A case report and literature review
title_short Cerebellar, brainstem and spinal cord metastases from esophageal cancer following radiotherapy: A case report and literature review
title_sort cerebellar, brainstem and spinal cord metastases from esophageal cancer following radiotherapy: a case report and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4063618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24959256
http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/ol.2014.2130
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