title: Lhermitte-Duclos disease (cerebellar gangliocytoma).
abstract: We report a case of Lhermitte-Duclos disease (cerebellar gangliocytoma) in a 7-year-old child with café au lait spots and mild cerebellar symptoms. Findings on computed tomography 4 years earlier had been normal. Subsequent development of intracranial hypertension caused by hydrocephalus led to ventriculoperitoneal shunting. The appearance of the cerebellum on magnetic resonance imaging was supportive of the diagnosis, and open biopsy confirmed it.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Hospital Evangélico de Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Banerjee
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Coimbra
mesh_terms: D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005729:Ganglioneuroma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed