Malignant recurrence of childhood cerebellar astrocytoma: case report.
A 15-year-old boy developed a glioblastoma in a cerebellar hemisphere 7 years after surgical excision and local irradiation of a pilocytic astrocytoma in the cerebellar vermis. Clinical and histopathological details are presented, and the literature on late malignant recurrence of childhood cerebellar astrocytoma is reviewed.
Ushio
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Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
Arita
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Yoshimine
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Ikeda
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Mogami
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D000293:Adolescent; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000601:surgery*; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D005910:Glioma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed