Cerebral and cerebellar glial tumors in the same individual.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
We report histologically different gliomas occurring simultaneously in both the cerebrum and cerebellum in a 53-year-old woman. One tumor was a cerebellar astrocytoma, and the second was a temporal glioblastoma multiforme. Two months after the removal of both tumors, the third lesion, located in the basal ganglia, was found on a computed tomographic examination, but it was not verified histologically. We recommend a biopsy of one tumor when a diagnosis of multiple brain tumors is established based on a computed tomographic examination, in order to avoid the misdiagnosis of multicentric gliomas as brain metastases.
Medical subject headings
- Astrocytoma
- Basal Ganglia
- Brain Neoplasms
- Cerebellar Neoplasms
- Glioblastoma
- Neoplasms, Multiple Primary
- Temporal Lobe