title: Malignant cerebellar astrocytoma. Report of five cases.
abstract: Five cases of malignant cerebellar astrocytoma observed during a seven-year period are reported. The analysis of the cases allows us to conclude that malignant cerebellar astrocytoma represents a true tumoral entity quite distinct from cerebellar glioblastoma as well as from medulloblastoma. A perfect correspondence between the histological malignancy and the duration of survival has been noted in all the cases.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000473:pathology; D011379:Prognosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed