SYMPTOMATIC CEREBELLAR METASTASIS AND LATE LOCAL RECURRENCE OF A CAUDA-EQUINA PARAGANGLIOMA - CASE-REPORT

Citation
Kn. Strommer et al., SYMPTOMATIC CEREBELLAR METASTASIS AND LATE LOCAL RECURRENCE OF A CAUDA-EQUINA PARAGANGLIOMA - CASE-REPORT, Journal of neurosurgery, 83(1), 1995, pp. 166-169
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences,Surgery
Journal title
ISSN journal
00223085
Volume
83
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
166 - 169
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-3085(1995)83:1<166:SCMALL>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
This case report contains a description of a 61-year-old patient who p resented with a progressive truncal ataxia 22 years after complete rem oval of a small paraganglioma of the cauda equina. Magnetic resonance imaging of the neuraxis revealed a large cystic lesion in the cerebell ar midline, three small cortical-to-subcortical nodular tumors in the posterior fossa, and local recurrences of the paraganglioma of the cau da equina. Pathological examination showed the cerebellar midline lesi on to be a paraganglioma, most likely a metastasis from the cauda equi na localization.