title: Non-infantile desmoplastic cerebellar ganglioglioma in a patient with multiple congenital anomalies: a rare association.
abstract: Numerous syndromes with craniofacial, cardiac, cutaneous and vascular anomalies have been described in the literature. Here we report on a 9-year-old girl who was diagnosed as having a clavicular arteriovenous malformation with limb enlargement, an axillary port wine stain and macrocephaly with frontal bossing. She was investigated for enlarged head size; although she did not have hydrocephalus as initially suspected, she was found to have a right cerebellar lesion. This was excised and the pathology report was diagnostic of desmoplastic ganglioglioma. The posterior fossa is a very rare location for gangliogliomas. This was a desmoplastic variant that is only encountered in infants. Thus, the location and the pathology made the tumour rare. In addition, the cranio-vasculo-cutaneous lesions made this previously unreported association noteworthy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India.
authors.forename: Sudheer Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Gundamaneni
authors.forename: C V Shankar
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Ganesh
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mahadevan
authors.forename: Venkatesh S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Madhugiri
authors.forename: Gopalakrishnan M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Sasidharan
authors.forename: V R Roopesh
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D018303:Ganglioglioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans