Medulloblastoma of the cerebellar vermis with subarachnoid dissemination
Medulloblastoma, the most frequent pediatric brain tumor, has a known propensity for subarachnoid dissemination. Spinal metastases indicate a poor prognosis. Intraventricular spread is much less common. We report a case of primary intraventricular dissemination with precocious puberty as the first c...
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| author | Krapf, H Bühring, U Friese, S Küker, W |
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| description | Medulloblastoma, the most frequent pediatric brain tumor, has a known propensity for subarachnoid dissemination. Spinal metastases indicate a poor prognosis. Intraventricular spread is much less common. We report a case of primary intraventricular dissemination with precocious puberty as the first clinical symptom due to a metastasis at the infundibulary stalk. This has not been reported so far as initial symptom of a medulloblastoma. Furthermore, we encountered an unusually mild contrast enhancement of the spinal and intraventricular metastases. Delayed scanning after contrast administration and FLAIR sequences proved to be particularly valuable in this case. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ec3d00fe-6afb-47b6-9fed-c1af9699a6de2022-03-27T11:15:57ZMedulloblastoma of the cerebellar vermis with subarachnoid disseminationJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:ec3d00fe-6afb-47b6-9fed-c1af9699a6deGermanSymplectic Elements at Oxford2000Krapf, HBühring, UFriese, SKüker, WMedulloblastoma, the most frequent pediatric brain tumor, has a known propensity for subarachnoid dissemination. Spinal metastases indicate a poor prognosis. Intraventricular spread is much less common. We report a case of primary intraventricular dissemination with precocious puberty as the first clinical symptom due to a metastasis at the infundibulary stalk. This has not been reported so far as initial symptom of a medulloblastoma. Furthermore, we encountered an unusually mild contrast enhancement of the spinal and intraventricular metastases. Delayed scanning after contrast administration and FLAIR sequences proved to be particularly valuable in this case. |
| spellingShingle | Krapf, H Bühring, U Friese, S Küker, W Medulloblastoma of the cerebellar vermis with subarachnoid dissemination |
| title | Medulloblastoma of the cerebellar vermis with subarachnoid dissemination |
| title_full | Medulloblastoma of the cerebellar vermis with subarachnoid dissemination |
| title_fullStr | Medulloblastoma of the cerebellar vermis with subarachnoid dissemination |
| title_full_unstemmed | Medulloblastoma of the cerebellar vermis with subarachnoid dissemination |
| title_short | Medulloblastoma of the cerebellar vermis with subarachnoid dissemination |
| title_sort | medulloblastoma of the cerebellar vermis with subarachnoid dissemination |
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