Simultaneous occurrence of cerebellar medulloblastoma and pituitary adenoma: A case report

PURPOSE: We present the unusual occurrence of two distinct neoplasms in a 42-year-old woman with an operated pituitary adenoma 18 years ago. METHODS: Clinical history, magnetic resonance imaging studies and histopathological findings were utilized for our diagnostic considerations. RESULTS: Concomit...

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Autores principales: Samaras, Vassilis, Samaras, Efstathios, Stergiou, Ioanna, Konstantopoulou, Paraskevi, Arnaoutoglou, Christos, Arnaoutoglou, Marianthi, Varsos, Vassilis, Barbatis, Calypso
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2556997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18811959
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-175
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author Samaras, Vassilis
Samaras, Efstathios
Stergiou, Ioanna
Konstantopoulou, Paraskevi
Arnaoutoglou, Christos
Arnaoutoglou, Marianthi
Varsos, Vassilis
Barbatis, Calypso
author_facet Samaras, Vassilis
Samaras, Efstathios
Stergiou, Ioanna
Konstantopoulou, Paraskevi
Arnaoutoglou, Christos
Arnaoutoglou, Marianthi
Varsos, Vassilis
Barbatis, Calypso
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description PURPOSE: We present the unusual occurrence of two distinct neoplasms in a 42-year-old woman with an operated pituitary adenoma 18 years ago. METHODS: Clinical history, magnetic resonance imaging studies and histopathological findings were utilized for our diagnostic considerations. RESULTS: Concomitant presence of a cerebellar medulloblastoma secondary disseminated within the spinal canal and a pituitary macroadenoma, was identified. CONCLUSION: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case in which these two neoplasms are simultaneously occurred in the same individual. A short review of the literature is performed.
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spelling pubmed-25569972008-10-02 Simultaneous occurrence of cerebellar medulloblastoma and pituitary adenoma: A case report Samaras, Vassilis Samaras, Efstathios Stergiou, Ioanna Konstantopoulou, Paraskevi Arnaoutoglou, Christos Arnaoutoglou, Marianthi Varsos, Vassilis Barbatis, Calypso Cases J Case Report PURPOSE: We present the unusual occurrence of two distinct neoplasms in a 42-year-old woman with an operated pituitary adenoma 18 years ago. METHODS: Clinical history, magnetic resonance imaging studies and histopathological findings were utilized for our diagnostic considerations. RESULTS: Concomitant presence of a cerebellar medulloblastoma secondary disseminated within the spinal canal and a pituitary macroadenoma, was identified. CONCLUSION: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case in which these two neoplasms are simultaneously occurred in the same individual. A short review of the literature is performed. BioMed Central 2008-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2556997/ /pubmed/18811959 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-175 Text en Copyright © 2008 Samaras et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Samaras, Vassilis
Samaras, Efstathios
Stergiou, Ioanna
Konstantopoulou, Paraskevi
Arnaoutoglou, Christos
Arnaoutoglou, Marianthi
Varsos, Vassilis
Barbatis, Calypso
Simultaneous occurrence of cerebellar medulloblastoma and pituitary adenoma: A case report
title Simultaneous occurrence of cerebellar medulloblastoma and pituitary adenoma: A case report
title_full Simultaneous occurrence of cerebellar medulloblastoma and pituitary adenoma: A case report
title_fullStr Simultaneous occurrence of cerebellar medulloblastoma and pituitary adenoma: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Simultaneous occurrence of cerebellar medulloblastoma and pituitary adenoma: A case report
title_short Simultaneous occurrence of cerebellar medulloblastoma and pituitary adenoma: A case report
title_sort simultaneous occurrence of cerebellar medulloblastoma and pituitary adenoma: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2556997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18811959
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-175
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