title: Increased intracranial pressure in a case of spinal cervical glioblastoma multiforme. Analysis of these two rare conditions.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Service of Neurology (University Hospital), Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: de Castro-Costa
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: de Araújo
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: de Arruda
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: de Araújo
authors.forename: E G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: de Figueiredo
mesh_terms: 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