Case Reports of Symptomatic Metastases in Four Patients with Primary Intracranial Gliomas

摘要

Four patients with primary intracranial high-grade gliomas are reported. Three of them developed spinal symptoms and signs generated by spinal metastases a few months after first diagnosis, the last patient developed an extraspinal metastasis in cervical lymph nodes. The spinal metastasis of a 30 years old patient was located intradurally at L5/S1, in the second patient at level L3, the third patient presented with multiple metastases in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine.