title: Rapidly growing calcified cerebellar astrocytoma in infants.
abstract: We report the case of an infant with a cerebellar astrocytoma that showed marked calcification within only 6 months. In general, only slow-growing tumors tend to calcify. To our knowledge, no other case of such rapid calcification in cerebellar astrocytoma has been reported.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shuto
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohtsubo
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sekido
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwamoto
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
mesh_terms: D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed