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Extracranial metastasis of anaplastic oligodendroglioma with 1p19q loss of heterozygosity--case report.
Neurologia medico-chirurgica - 1 Jan 2010
Noshita Nobuo, Mashiyama Shoji, Fukawa Osamu, Asano Shigeyuki, Watanabe Mika, Tominaga Teiji
Abstract excerpt
We report a rare case of anaplastic oligodendroglioma with extracranial metastasis, showing 1p19q co-deletion in both the brain tissue and the metastatic site. A 53-year-old man first presented with a left frontal tumor. The tumor was subtotally removed and irradiation was performed for the residual tumor and tumor bed. Two years after the initial treatment, several tumors appeared on his neck and one was...
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