Malignant glioma after bombshell injury.
A case of post-traumatic glioma is presented. The patient, wounded in the head in World War II by a bombshell, developed symptoms of an intracranial tumor in 1982. Histopathologically the tumor was an astrocytoma grade III. The tumor was in direct continuity with an old abscess membrane.
D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005625:Frontal Lobe; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014857:Warfare; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000150:complications*