Atypical adult medulloblastoma
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Maziar Behbahani , Edward Jerome St. George , Laurance T. Dunn , Donald M. Hadley , William Stewart
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
Medulloblastomas are malignant primitive neuroectodermal neoplasms of childhood. In adults, clinical manifestations, imaging and prognosis can be different from that observed in children. Three adult patients with confirmed diagnoses ofmedulloblastoma are discussed in this report. They presented with unusually prolonged clinical courses and with imaging more suggestive of L’hermitte-Duclos disease. Medulloblastoma should be considered in all adults with posterior fossa masses despite having clinical and radiological features suggestive of a low-grade tumour. Definitive diagnosis requires histological confirmation in all cases.
Acta Neurochir (2011) 153:1511–1517 DOI 10.1007/s00701-011-1040-3 Received: 24 November 2010 / Accepted: 20 April 2011 / Published online: 9 May 2011 # Springer-Verlag 2011
