Multiple primary tumors of the brain including a medulloblastoma in the cerebellum.
A case of multiple primary tumors in a 12-year-old girl is described. The tumors included a right optic nerve glioma, a pilocytic astrocytoma in the right globus pallidus, a ganglioglioma in the left globus pallidus and a medulloblastoma in the cerebellum. To our knowledge no such case has been reported so far in literature.
D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000473:pathology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005910:Glioma / Q000473:pathology; D005917:Globus Pallidus; D006801:Humans; D008527:Medulloblastoma / Q000473:pathology*; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000473:pathology; D009901:Optic Nerve Diseases / Q000473:pathology