Bilateral thalamic glioma: case report.
We report a 63-year-old man who had a rare bilateral thalamic glioma. He complained of difficulty with calculations and had mental deterioration. T1-weighted images revealed bilateral thalamic swelling with homogeneous low signal and no contrast enhancement. The tumour, showing decrease of N-acetylaspartate and the presence of lactate on magnetic resonance spectroscopy, was diagnosed as an astrocytoma by stereotactic biopsy.
Hirano
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Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Japan. hirahira@m2.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp
Yokoyama
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Nakayama
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Nagata
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Kuratsu
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D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013786:Thalamic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013788:Thalamus / Q000473:pathology