An intramedullary 'flame' recognized as being an intramedullary spinal cord metastasis from esophageal cancer
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Raffaella Capasso; Ferdinando De Vita; Renata Conforti; Assunta Grillo; Angelica Petrillo
- Source
- Subject
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Esophageal Neoplasms
Central nervous system
Intramedullary spinal cord
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
Metastasis
law.invention
Intramedullary rod
03 medical and health sciences
CNS = Central nervous system CT = Computed tomography ISCM = Intramedullary spinal cord metastases MRI = Magnetic resonance imaging
0302 clinical medicine
Fatal Outcome
law
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
In patient
Spinal Cord Neoplasms
business.industry
Neoplasms, Second Primary
Esophageal cancer
Primary cancer
medicine.disease
Spinal cord
medicine.anatomical_structure
Neuroradiology
Spinal Cord
Female
Radiology
Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
- Language
- English
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.