Cerebellar astrocytoma presenting as a syringomyelic syndrome.
Cerebellar astrocytomas comprise about 36% of posterior fossa tumors in childhood. Such tumors presenting with hemorrhage have been reported, but in such cases, the location of the lesion was clinically obvious. This 16-year-old boy presented with a syringomyelic syndrome resulting from hemorrhage in the tumor causing compression of the upper cervical spinal cord. Such a case has not been previously recorded. Possible mechanisms leading to this syndrome are discussed and the relevant literature reviewed.
D000293:Adolescent; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013577:Syndrome; D013595:Syringomyelia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed