https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/629559
Title: | Intracranial Seeding Following Surgery and Chemotherapy in a Child with a Spinal Cord Endodermal Sinus Tumor: A Case Report | Authors: | Tan, Sie-Hiong Chen, Sheng-Chieh Lin, Long-Wei LU-TING KUO |
Keywords: | endodermal sinus tumor; germ cell tumor; metastasis; spinal cord; thoracic spine; yolk sac tumor | Issue Date: | 31-May-2022 | Source: | Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) | Abstract: | We herein report a case of an extremely rare spinal cord endodermal sinus tumor (EST). A nine-year-old boy presented with progressive paraparesis, hypesthesia, and urinary retention. Gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed multiple intradural enhancing lesions at T1 to T9 without evidence of intracranial tumors. He underwent partial resection of the lesions, and histology revealed an EST. He received chemotherapy, but 12 months after surgery, rapid tumor progression and intracranial metastases with obstructive hydrocephalus were detected. Following external ventricular drainage, the patient's condition rapidly deteriorated, and he ultimately died. EST should be considered when confronting a homogenously enhancing intradural tumor of the spine on post-contrast MRI. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/629559 | ISSN: | 0918-2918 1349-7235 |
DOI: | 10.2169/internalmedicine.8306-21 |
Appears in Collections: | 醫學系 |
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