Spinal meningioma after treatment for Hodgkin disease. Case report.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Long-term survivors of Hodgkin disease may develop second primary tumors caused by the mutagenic effects of radio- and chemotherapy. The authors describe the case of a 35-year-old woman who presented with an unusual meningioma of the cervical spine 9 years after undergoing combined-modality treatment for Hodgkin disease. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of spinal meningioma as a complication of such therapy. Whereas radiation-induced intracranial meningiomas are well described in the literature, treatment-induced meningiomas of the spine have not been widely recognized.
Medical subject headings
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
- Hodgkin Disease
- Meningioma
- Neoplasms, Second Primary
- Spinal Neoplasms