Brain and spinal cord hemorrhage in long-term survivors of malignant pediatric brain tumors: a possible late effect of therapy

Neurology. 1991 Jan;41(1):148-50. doi: 10.1212/wnl.41.1.148.

Abstract

Three children with malignant primary CNS tumors treated with craniospinal radiotherapy developed intraparenchymal hemorrhages a median of 5 years following therapy in sites distant from the primary tumor. Radical surgical procedures disclosed fresh and old hematoma, gliosis, and necrosis in all 3 patients and an aggregation of abnormal microscopic blood vessels in two. No tumor was found. All 3 patients remain in long-term (greater than 10 years) continuous remission.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Brain Diseases / diagnosis
  • Brain Diseases / etiology*
  • Brain Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
  • Cerebellar Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Hemorrhage / diagnosis
  • Hemorrhage / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Medulloblastoma / radiotherapy
  • Radiation Injuries*
  • Spinal Cord Diseases / diagnosis
  • Spinal Cord Diseases / etiology*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed