Two primary brain tumors in one child

Neurology. 1986 Jan;36(1):71-3. doi: 10.1212/wnl.36.1.71.

Abstract

We studied a 4-year-old boy with symptoms and signs of a posterior fossa tumor. CT showed two separate intracranial tumors: a fourth ventricle choroid plexus papilloma and a frontal subependymal giant-cell astrocytoma. This case emphasizes that, even in the absence of special genetic predisposition to CNS tumors, two separate intracranial masses may not represent CSF metastasis of a single primary tumor.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Astrocytoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Astrocytoma / pathology
  • Astrocytoma / therapy
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Brain Neoplasms / pathology
  • Brain Neoplasms / therapy
  • Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / pathology
  • Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / therapy
  • Child, Preschool
  • Choroid Plexus
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Cranial Fossa, Posterior
  • Ependyma
  • Frontal Lobe
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / diagnostic imaging*
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / pathology
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / therapy
  • Papilloma / diagnostic imaging
  • Papilloma / pathology
  • Papilloma / therapy
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed