Oligodendroglioma with extraneural metastases.

Remote metastases of glial tumours are in general rather rare and only few instances of extraneural metastases of oligodendroglioma have been found in the literature (James and Pagel, 1951; Spataro and Sacks, 1968).We are reporting a case of an operated oligodendroglioma, in which metastases to the lumbar vertebrae were found at necropsy.CASE REPORT A 58-year-old woman (NI 249-67) had first experienced the sudden onset of severe headache, vomiting, and right-sided hemiparesis about 3j years before death.