An elderly patient presenting with a primary spinal multifocal intradural extramedullary pilocytic astrocytoma: a case report and review of the literature

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* Case report * Open Access * Open Peer Review An elderly patient presenting with a primary spinal multifocal intradural extramedullary pilocytic astrocytoma: a case report and review of the literature * Devin McBride1, * Zaid Aljuboori3, * Eyas M. Hattab2, * Richard Downs5, * Shiao Woo4, * Brian Williams3, * Joseph Neimat3 and * Eric Burton6Email author BMC Cancer2018 18:806 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-018-4721-y © The Author(s). Conclusion This is a rare case of an adult with multiple spinal pilocytic astrocytomas in an intradural extramedullary location, typically the result of cerebrospinal fluid dissemination of neoplastic cells from a primary intracranial tumor site (i.e. drop metastasis). Pilocytic astrocytoma Declarations Availability of data and materials The datasets generated during the current study are not publicly available because of patient privacy but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.