title: Multiple cerebral gliomas in multiple sclerosis.
abstract: A patient with multiple sclerosis and a multicentric anaplastic astrocytoma is described. The evidence suggests that the relationship is not coincidental and that the astrocytomas originate in multiple sclerosis plaques.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000473:pathology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary; D009897:Optic Chiasm / Q000473:pathology; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000473:pathology