Open AccessAnaplastic Oligodendroglioma with Cervical Lymphnode Metastasis
Author(s) -
Ápio Cláudio Martins Antunes,
Lígia Maria Barbosa Continho,
Ricardo Tarrago
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
jornal brasileiro de neurocirurgia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2446-6786
pISSN - 0103-5118
DOI - 10.22290/jbnc.v6i1.145
Subject(s) - medicine , metastasis , radiation therapy , lesion , lymphatic system , biopsy , head and neck , oligodendroglioma , radiology , cervical lymph nodes , pathology , surgery , glioma , cancer , astrocytoma , cancer research
A case of a patient operated on twice for a temporoparietal anaplastic oligondendroglioma, followed by radiotherapy, is reported. Although no intracranial recurrence has happenend, a biopsy-proven extracranial cervical lymplhnode metastasis was diagnosed 15 months laler. Surgical manipulation of the primary lesion by lymphatic and/or blood vessel invasion seem to be the main suspected factors in the development of CNS tumors methastasis in the head and neck region.