title: [The tumoral form of cerebellar schistosomiasis: case report and measure of granulomas].
abstract: An unusual case of the tumoral form of cerebellar Schistosomiasis mansoni, in a 15 year-old male diagnosed by biopsy, with neurological signs and symptoms 60 days prior to surgery. Computerized tomography show a hyperdense expanding lesion located in cerebellum, suggesting glioma. Histopathological examination showed numerous S. mansoni ova involved by granulomatous inflammation in necrotic-exudative phase, located mainly in the internal, granular layer of the cerebellum, creating a pseudotumor in the cerebellar vermis and a recent hemorrhage in the trunk. The areas of granulomas were measured.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Anatomia Patológica e Medicina Legal, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Rua Sao Paulo 893, 30170-131 Belo Horizonte, MG. latafuri@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Raso
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tafuri
authors.forename: Ney da Fonseca
authors.initials: Nda F
authors.lastname: Lopes
authors.forename: Eduardo Rossi
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Monteiro
authors.forename: Wagner Luiz
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Tafuri
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000818:Animals; D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006099:Granuloma / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020818:Neuroschistosomiasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012555:Schistosomiasis mansoni / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed