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Author(s) -
Dawson T. P.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
neuropathology and applied neurobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.538
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1365-2990
pISSN - 0305-1846
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2990.1997.tb01330.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pathology , central nervous system , metastasis , lesion , bone marrow , metastatic lesion , oligodendroglioma , glioma , cancer , cancer research , astrocytoma
T. P. Dawson (1997) Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology , 23, 516–520 Pancytopaenia from a disseminated anaplastic oligodendroglioma The rarity of extraneural metastases from a central nervous system (CNS) tumour may mean that the manifestations of a metastatic lesion are confused with a second pathology. This report concerns a patient who developed a fatal and clinically unexplained, pancytopaenia 3 months after removal of an anaplastic oligodendroglioma. Post‐mortem revealed widespread bone marrow dissemination of the CNS primary and a solitary liver metastasis. A brief review of the literature and some possible reasons for the rarity of extracranial metastases are discussed.