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We present a 21-year-old man with a spinal intramedullary astrocytoma in the low thoracic segment who died of multiple intracranial metastases more than 3 years after primary surgery.
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Tijssen, C.C., Sluzewski, M. Spinal astrocytoma with intracranial metastases. J Neuro-Oncol 18, 49–52 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01324603
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