title: Supratentorial juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma in a young adult with Silver-Russell syndrome.
abstract: Silver-Russell syndrome is a rare genetically heterogeneous disorder in which patients demonstrate intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation, triangular facies, excessive sweating during early childhood, late closure of the anterior fontanelle and skeletal asymmetry. An association with malignancy exists and only one previous intracranial tumour has been reported, a craniopharyngioma. We report the first case of Silver-Russell syndrome associated with a supratentorial juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. eoinfenton@eircom.net
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fenton
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Refai
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: See
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Rawluk
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D025063:Chromosome Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D005317:Fetal Growth Retardation; D020773:Headache Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D053783:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Interventional / Q000379:methods; D013577:Syndrome; D016896:Treatment Outcome