A rare case of congenital glioblastoma with atypical presentation in an eleven month-old infant: Case report with review of literature

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and malignant primary brain tumor in adults. The occurrence of this entity in infants is a rarity and portends a uniform dismal prognosis and survival in spite of all the latest available management options. The authors herein report a case of a GBM i...

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Autores principales: Prasad, Vangala Bramha, Rajesh, Alugolu, Purohit, Aniruddh Kumar, Uppin, Megha Shantveer
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5379811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28413539
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.145103
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author Prasad, Vangala Bramha
Rajesh, Alugolu
Purohit, Aniruddh Kumar
Uppin, Megha Shantveer
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description Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and malignant primary brain tumor in adults. The occurrence of this entity in infants is a rarity and portends a uniform dismal prognosis and survival in spite of all the latest available management options. The authors herein report a case of a GBM in an 11 month-old infant with tumor involving predominantly the left temporal and frontal regions who expired 10 weeks after tumor decompression. Literature and available management options have been reviewed in the context of the presented case.
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spelling pubmed-53798112017-04-14 A rare case of congenital glioblastoma with atypical presentation in an eleven month-old infant: Case report with review of literature Prasad, Vangala Bramha Rajesh, Alugolu Purohit, Aniruddh Kumar Uppin, Megha Shantveer Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and malignant primary brain tumor in adults. The occurrence of this entity in infants is a rarity and portends a uniform dismal prognosis and survival in spite of all the latest available management options. The authors herein report a case of a GBM in an 11 month-old infant with tumor involving predominantly the left temporal and frontal regions who expired 10 weeks after tumor decompression. Literature and available management options have been reviewed in the context of the presented case. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5379811/ /pubmed/28413539 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.145103 Text en Copyright: © 2014 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Prasad, Vangala Bramha
Rajesh, Alugolu
Purohit, Aniruddh Kumar
Uppin, Megha Shantveer
A rare case of congenital glioblastoma with atypical presentation in an eleven month-old infant: Case report with review of literature
title A rare case of congenital glioblastoma with atypical presentation in an eleven month-old infant: Case report with review of literature
title_full A rare case of congenital glioblastoma with atypical presentation in an eleven month-old infant: Case report with review of literature
title_fullStr A rare case of congenital glioblastoma with atypical presentation in an eleven month-old infant: Case report with review of literature
title_full_unstemmed A rare case of congenital glioblastoma with atypical presentation in an eleven month-old infant: Case report with review of literature
title_short A rare case of congenital glioblastoma with atypical presentation in an eleven month-old infant: Case report with review of literature
title_sort rare case of congenital glioblastoma with atypical presentation in an eleven month-old infant: case report with review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5379811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28413539
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.145103
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