Recurrent intracranial hypertension and a midbrain glioma.
At the age of 36, this patient's clinical picture satisfied the criteria for the diagnosis of benign intracranial hypertension. After an essentially symptom-free interval, she developed new symptoms 17 years later that proved to be the result of a associated with glial-lined cavities in the midbrain and malignant glioma in the splenium. The possibility of a relationship between these disparate events is considered.
D000328:Adult; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000473:pathology*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000473:pathology; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008636:Mesencephalon / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009837:Oligodendroglioma / Q000473:pathology*; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000473:pathology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed