Spinal Leptomeningeal Metastasis from Recurrent Cerebral Glioblastoma

Case Report

Korean J Spine 2004;1(1): 146-149.

Dong Ah Shin, M.D., Seung Woo Park, M.D.1, Keung Nyun Kim, M.D.2 and Do Heum Yoon, M.D.2

Department of Neurosurgery, Presbyterian Medical Center, Jeonju, Korea

Spinal Leptomeningeal Metastasis from Recurrent Cerebral Glioblastoma

Dong Ah Shin^, M.D.^, Seung Woo Park^, M.D.¹^, Keung Nyun Kim^, M.D.² and Do Heum Yoon^, M.D.²

Department of Neurosurgery, Presbyterian Medical Center, Jeonju, Korea

Abstract

Glioblastoma is the most common primary malignant tumor of the central nervous system whose local recurrence is more common than distant metastasis. Extracranial metastases, including spinal leptomeningeal metastases, occur in fewer than 1% of the patients diagnosed with glioblastoma. We present a case of a 28-year-old male with spinal leptomeningeal metastasis from a recurrent cerebral glioblastoma who presented with low back pain.

Keywords: Glioblastoma, Metastasis, Spinal cord tumor