Rapidly growing calcified cerebellar astrocytoma in infants
| Autor: | Yutaka Ohtsubo, Takashi Shuto, Kenichi Sekido, Hiroko Iwamoto, Isao Yamamoto |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Cerebellum medicine.medical_specialty Astrocytoma Central nervous system disease Glioma medicine Humans Cerebellar Neoplasms neoplasms business.industry Calcinosis Infant General Medicine Anatomy medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging Cerebral Angiography nervous system diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Cerebellar diseases nervous system Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Cerebellar Astrocytoma Neurology (clinical) Neurosurgery Tomography X-Ray Computed business Calcification |
| Zdroj: | Child's Nervous System. 12:107-109 |
| ISSN: | 1433-0350 0256-7040 |
| Popis: | We report the case of an infant with a cerebellar astrocytoma that showed marked calcification within only 6 months. In general, only slow-growing tumors tend to calcify. To our knowledge, no other case of such rapid calcification in cerebellar astrocytoma has been reported. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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