Intraventricular glioblastoma: a paediatric case report

Br J Neurosurg. 2007 Aug;21(4):411-3. doi: 10.1080/02688690701452776.

Abstract

The authors report the case of a nine-year-old boy admitted with raised intracranial pressure in relation with a tumour of the right lateral ventricle. Complete removal of the lesion was achieved and pathological diagnosis was glioblastoma multiform. Adjuvant radio and chemotherapy was given, but the child died from a recurrence of the disease one year after diagnosis. In addition, last MRI demonstrated, distant from the initial tumor site, an extra-cerebral lesion that is supposed to be a glioma metastasis rather than a radio-induced tumour.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brain Neoplasms / complications
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Child
  • Disease Progression
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Glioblastoma / drug therapy
  • Glioblastoma / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods
  • Male
  • Neoplasms, Second Primary*
  • Parietal Lobe*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed