Supratentorial metastasis of medulloblastoma in adults

Two adults, 31 and 20 years of age, developed supratentorial metastasis 3½ years and 11 months, respectively, after gross total removal of their posterior fossa medulloblastoma. The first case developed spinal metastasis as well. Both had undergone craniospinal irradiation. Case 1 underwent laminect...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Sushil, Handa, Amit, Jha, Deepak K., Choudhary, Ajay
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4849324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27366282
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.149993
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description Two adults, 31 and 20 years of age, developed supratentorial metastasis 3½ years and 11 months, respectively, after gross total removal of their posterior fossa medulloblastoma. The first case developed spinal metastasis as well. Both had undergone craniospinal irradiation. Case 1 underwent laminectomy and case 2 underwent craniotomy because their presenting symptoms required so.
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spelling pubmed-48493242016-07-01 Supratentorial metastasis of medulloblastoma in adults Kumar, Sushil Handa, Amit Jha, Deepak K. Choudhary, Ajay Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Two adults, 31 and 20 years of age, developed supratentorial metastasis 3½ years and 11 months, respectively, after gross total removal of their posterior fossa medulloblastoma. The first case developed spinal metastasis as well. Both had undergone craniospinal irradiation. Case 1 underwent laminectomy and case 2 underwent craniotomy because their presenting symptoms required so. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4849324/ /pubmed/27366282 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.149993 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4849324/
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