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Intracranial aneurysms and optic glioma – an unusual combination: a case report
BACKGROUND: The coexistence of glial high grade tumors (glioblastoma, anaplastic astrocytoma) and cerebral aneurysms is common but the association with optic glioma is rare. The treatment of these associated lesions is problematic. CASE PRESENTATION: A 36-year-old white woman presented to our instit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818450/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27036496 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-0869-8 |
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author | De Paulis, Danilo Nicosia, Giancarlo Taddei, Graziano Di Vitantonio, Hambra Gallieni, Massimo Del Maestro, Mattia Raysi Dechordi, Soheila Galzio, Renato Juan |
author_facet | De Paulis, Danilo Nicosia, Giancarlo Taddei, Graziano Di Vitantonio, Hambra Gallieni, Massimo Del Maestro, Mattia Raysi Dechordi, Soheila Galzio, Renato Juan |
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description | BACKGROUND: The coexistence of glial high grade tumors (glioblastoma, anaplastic astrocytoma) and cerebral aneurysms is common but the association with optic glioma is rare. The treatment of these associated lesions is problematic. CASE PRESENTATION: A 36-year-old white woman presented to our institution with recurrent attacks of headache. Her preoperative radiological studies revealed a lesion of her left optic nerve with extension to the optic chiasma, an aneurysmatic dilatation of the left carotid bifurcation, a second aneurysm on the left of her middle cerebral artery, and a third one on her right anterior cerebral artery in the A2 tract. A left pterional approach was used to remove the tumor and clip the three aneurysmatic dilatations in a single stage. CONCLUSIONS: We report this unusual case of optic glioma associated to multiples aneurysms and review the pertinent literature. An adequate knowledge of this association is mandatory to plan the correct approach to avoid complications. |
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spelling | pubmed-48184502016-04-03 Intracranial aneurysms and optic glioma – an unusual combination: a case report De Paulis, Danilo Nicosia, Giancarlo Taddei, Graziano Di Vitantonio, Hambra Gallieni, Massimo Del Maestro, Mattia Raysi Dechordi, Soheila Galzio, Renato Juan J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: The coexistence of glial high grade tumors (glioblastoma, anaplastic astrocytoma) and cerebral aneurysms is common but the association with optic glioma is rare. The treatment of these associated lesions is problematic. CASE PRESENTATION: A 36-year-old white woman presented to our institution with recurrent attacks of headache. Her preoperative radiological studies revealed a lesion of her left optic nerve with extension to the optic chiasma, an aneurysmatic dilatation of the left carotid bifurcation, a second aneurysm on the left of her middle cerebral artery, and a third one on her right anterior cerebral artery in the A2 tract. A left pterional approach was used to remove the tumor and clip the three aneurysmatic dilatations in a single stage. CONCLUSIONS: We report this unusual case of optic glioma associated to multiples aneurysms and review the pertinent literature. An adequate knowledge of this association is mandatory to plan the correct approach to avoid complications. BioMed Central 2016-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4818450/ /pubmed/27036496 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-0869-8 Text en © De Paulis et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Case Report De Paulis, Danilo Nicosia, Giancarlo Taddei, Graziano Di Vitantonio, Hambra Gallieni, Massimo Del Maestro, Mattia Raysi Dechordi, Soheila Galzio, Renato Juan Intracranial aneurysms and optic glioma – an unusual combination: a case report |
title | Intracranial aneurysms and optic glioma – an unusual combination: a case report |
title_full | Intracranial aneurysms and optic glioma – an unusual combination: a case report |
title_fullStr | Intracranial aneurysms and optic glioma – an unusual combination: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Intracranial aneurysms and optic glioma – an unusual combination: a case report |
title_short | Intracranial aneurysms and optic glioma – an unusual combination: a case report |
title_sort | intracranial aneurysms and optic glioma – an unusual combination: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818450/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27036496 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-0869-8 |
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