Giant Cell Glioblastoma in a Child with Clinical and Family History of Neurofibromatosis

We report a case of giant cell glioblastoma (GCG) in a 13-year-old child with clinical features and family history of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). To the best of our knowledge, only two cases of GCG have been reported in a scenario of NF1, and only one of that was in a pediatric age group. A repo...

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Autores principales: Pant, Ishita, Nazir, Wajid, Ujjawal, Vinita, Chaturvedi, Sujata
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114311
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.181119
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Sumario:We report a case of giant cell glioblastoma (GCG) in a 13-year-old child with clinical features and family history of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). To the best of our knowledge, only two cases of GCG have been reported in a scenario of NF1, and only one of that was in a pediatric age group. A report on our case is presented here along with a review of literature.

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