[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.
Neurologische Klinik des Klinikums Darmstadt. Afellgbl@aol.com
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Fellgiebel
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Erbguth
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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*