[Giant connatal glioma (author's transl)].
A clinico-neuropathological report is given on a four months old girl with head enlargement first recognized at the age of four weeks. A giant intracranial tumor was found at autopsy, which was histologically an isomorphous, largely pilocytic astrocytoma without morphological features suggesting rapid growth. This connatal astrocytoma seems unique in size, suggesting tumor formation already during very early embryonal development.
D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000196:embryology / Q000473:pathology*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000196:embryology / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn
Konnatales Riesengliom.