SAITO Taiichi
   Department   Research Institutes and Facilities, Research Institutes and Facilities
   Position  
Article types Original article
Language English
Peer review Peer reviewed
Title Secondary anaplastic oligodendroglioma after cranial irradiation: a case report.
Journal Formal name:Journal of neuro-oncology
Abbreviation:J Neurooncol
ISSN code:0167-594X(Print)0167-594X(Linking)
Domestic / ForeginForegin
Volume, Issue, Page 88(3),pp.299-303
Author and coauthor Doskaliyev Aidos, Yamasaki Fumiyuki, Kenjo Masahiro, Shrestha Prabin, Saito Taiichi, Hanaya Ryosuke, Sugiyama Kazuhiko, Kurisu Kaoru
Publication date 2008/07
Summary Secondary brain tumors rarely arise after cranial irradiation; among them, meningiomas and glioblastomas are the most common and secondary oligodendroglial tumors the most rare. We present a 48-year-old man who developed an oligodendroglial tumor 38 years after receiving 50 Gy of cranial irradiation to a pineal tumor. He underwent gross total removal of a calcified, ring-enhanced mass in the right temporal lobe. The tumor was histologically diagnosed as anaplastic oligodendroglioma. Our review of previously reported secondary oligodendroglial tumors that developed after cranial irradiation revealed that these rare tumors arose after low-dose cranial irradiation or at the margin of a field irradiated with a high dose. We suggest that secondary oligodendroglial tumors arising after cranial irradiation are more aggressive than primary oligodendrogliomas.
DOI 10.1007/s11060-008-9564-y
Document No. 18373067