Sudden paraplegia in a case of apparently isolated frontal embryonal tumour with abundant neuropil and true rosettes.
The exceptional case of a 19-month-old boy with an apparently isolated frontal lesion and a huge holocord neoplastic involvement, presenting with a subtly indolent preoperative course and a particularly tumultuous evolution, is reported. The diagnosis of embryonal tumour with abundant neuropil and true rosettes was posed.
Paediatric Neurosurgery, Catholic University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Paolo
P
Frassanito
Luca
L
D'Angelo
Luca
L
Massimi
Libero
L
Lauriola
Mariangela
M
Novello
Concezio Di
CD
Rocco
Gianpiero
G
Tamburrini
D000208:Acute Disease; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005625:Frontal Lobe; D020235:Gait Apraxia / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D019581:Neuropil / Q000473:pathology*; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed