S Naruse, Y Horikawa, T Yamaki, G Odake, M Tohyama, K Hirakawa
A case of medulloblastoma with extracranial metastases was reported. A 20-year-old woman was operated on for cerebellar medulloblastoma twice during the past 5 years and a half. Two years after the second operation, she revealed the metastases to the cervical, axillar and inguinal lymphnodes, and to the skeletal system, such as the skull, scapula, humerus, sternum, spine, pelvis and femur. The cause of extracranial metastases in the very core in this case. While the tumor was located deep in the cerebellar hemisphere at the first operation, it spread over the cerebellar surface at the after the second operation, so that the tumor cells became infiltrative to the dura mater...
October 1979: No Shinkei Geka. Neurological Surgery