title: Cerebral and cerebellar glial tumors in the same individual.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Academy of Lódź, Poland.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kotwica
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Papierz
mesh_terms: D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D001479:Basal Ganglia; D001706:Biopsy; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary; D013702:Temporal Lobe