[Polyradiculopathy and ataxia: clinical manifestation of late recurrence of pilocytic astrocytoma with cerebral and spinal dissemination].
A 14-year-old girl underwent surgery for cerebral pilocytic astrocytoma. Eighteen years later she developed acute ataxia and a polyneuropathic syndrome. A recurrence with cerebral and spinal leptomeningeal dissemination of the tumor was discovered. Treatment of these cases is always difficult, and no standard therapy scheme has been established so far.
Fellgiebel
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Neurologische Klinik des Klinikums Darmstadt. Afellgbl@aol.com
Erbguth
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Neundörfer
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D005260:Female; D020234:Gait Ataxia / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D009366:Neoplasm Seeding; D011128:Polyradiculopathy / Q000209:etiology*; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary; D015173:Supratentorial Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*