INTRADURAL NEUROTROPIC SPREAD OF MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA - CASE-REPORTAND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

This 54-year-old man with a history of right-sided malignant mesotheli oma presented with signs of a partial spinal cord syndrome. The tumor had invaded thr lon er trunk of the brachial plexus and spread along t he T-l nerve root beneath the arachnoid onto the spinal cord itself. M esothelioma, despite its known predilection for local spread, is rarel y encountered within thr spinal canal. Neurotropism is commonly encoun tered in facial malignancies: however, it has never been reported to a ffect the brachial plexus and spinal cord.