Increased intracranial pressure in a case of spinal cervical glioblastoma multiforme. Analysis of these two rare conditions.
The authors describe a rare case of increased intracranial hypertension consequent to a spinal cervical glioblastoma multiforme in a young patient. They analyse the physiopathology of intracranial hypertension in spinal tumors and the rarity of such kind of tumor in this location, and its clinico-pathological aspects.
de Castro-Costa
C M
CM
Service of Neurology (University Hospital), Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.
de Araújo
R W
RW
de Arruda
M A
MA
de Araújo
P M
PM
de Figueiredo
E G
EG
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000209:etiology*; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology