Pediatric bilateral large concurrent thalamic glioblastoma: An unusual case report

Bilateral thalamic tumors are rare. Pediatric bilateral thalamic glioblastomas are even rarer, only five cases reported in the English literature till date. The clinical presentation, natural history, and prognosis of pediatric thalamic tumors are still relatively obscure. In this article, we report...

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Autores principales: Pandey, Nityanand, Singh, Pankaj Kumar, Mahapatra, Ashok K., Kakkar, Aanchal, Sharma, Bhawani Shankar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4040044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24891914
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.131496
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author Pandey, Nityanand
Singh, Pankaj Kumar
Mahapatra, Ashok K.
Kakkar, Aanchal
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description Bilateral thalamic tumors are rare. Pediatric bilateral thalamic glioblastomas are even rarer, only five cases reported in the English literature till date. The clinical presentation, natural history, and prognosis of pediatric thalamic tumors are still relatively obscure. In this article, we report an 8-year-old patient with large bilateral thalamic glioblastomas and briefly discuss its clinical presentation, possible modalities of management, and prognosis, in the light of available literature.
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spelling pubmed-40400442014-06-02 Pediatric bilateral large concurrent thalamic glioblastoma: An unusual case report Pandey, Nityanand Singh, Pankaj Kumar Mahapatra, Ashok K. Kakkar, Aanchal Sharma, Bhawani Shankar J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Bilateral thalamic tumors are rare. Pediatric bilateral thalamic glioblastomas are even rarer, only five cases reported in the English literature till date. The clinical presentation, natural history, and prognosis of pediatric thalamic tumors are still relatively obscure. In this article, we report an 8-year-old patient with large bilateral thalamic glioblastomas and briefly discuss its clinical presentation, possible modalities of management, and prognosis, in the light of available literature. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4040044/ /pubmed/24891914 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.131496 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pediatric bilateral large concurrent thalamic glioblastoma: An unusual case report
title Pediatric bilateral large concurrent thalamic glioblastoma: An unusual case report
title_full Pediatric bilateral large concurrent thalamic glioblastoma: An unusual case report
title_fullStr Pediatric bilateral large concurrent thalamic glioblastoma: An unusual case report
title_full_unstemmed Pediatric bilateral large concurrent thalamic glioblastoma: An unusual case report
title_short Pediatric bilateral large concurrent thalamic glioblastoma: An unusual case report
title_sort pediatric bilateral large concurrent thalamic glioblastoma: an unusual case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4040044/
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