Extensive central nervous system involvement in Merkel cell carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature

Table 2 Intraspinal metastases of Merkel cell carcinoma reported in the literature

	Year	Age/gender	Other metastasis	Intraspinal involvement	Level	Time since detection of the primary tumor	Survival after diagnosis
Moayed et al [13]	2000	70/M	LN	Epidural*	S	9 months	--
Turgut et al [14]	2002	63/M	LN	Epidural*	L5-S1	0	2 months
Turgut et al [15]	2004	65/M	--	Epidural	L5-S1	--	--
Vijay et al [16]	2007	57/F	LN	Epidural	T8, L4, S1	0	1 month
Ng et al [17]	2010	73/M	-	Epidural	T6	6 months	7 months
Present case	2010	65/M	LN	Epidural, intradural	T11-S	8.5 months^†	8 months

* Associated osseous involvement.
^† In the present case, the given time interval represents the time between the first presentation and the detection of the intraspinal metastases as the primary site of the tumor; in this case, the time remain unknown.
F, female; LN, lymph node; M, male.

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