Open AccessAn intramedullary "flame" recognized as being an intramedullary spinal cord metastasis from esophageal cancer
Author(s) -
Assunta Grillo,
Raffaella Capasso,
Angelica Petrillo,
Ferdinando De Vita,
Renata Conforti
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of radiology case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 18
ISSN - 1943-0922
DOI - 10.3941/jrcr.v13i7.3555
Subject(s) - medicine , intramedullary rod , spinal cord , metastasis , esophageal cancer , cord , cancer , spinal cord neoplasm , surgery , psychiatry
Intramedullary spinal cord metastases are rarely encountered in patients suffering from extra - central nervous system primary cancer, with only 2 described cases reported in the literature deriving from esophageal cancer. Intramedullary spinal cord metastases may occur at any level of the spinal cord but cervical location is the most frequent. We report the first case of intramedullary metastasis affecting the thoracic spinal cord from esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in a 35-year-old patient.