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Adult Desmoplastic Medulloblastoma

Medulloblastoma is more common in young age and rare in adult age. Some characteristics that characterize medulloblastoma in adults compared with children: Lateral cerebellar location, heterogeneous signal intensity on magnetic resonance imaging, desmoplastic histological variant and more favorable...

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Autores principales: Al Anazi, Abdulrahman H., Hendam, Ahmed T., Al Nemer, Areej M., Al Anazi, Rawan A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6298373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30787782
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-631X.204861
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author Al Anazi, Abdulrahman H.
Hendam, Ahmed T.
Al Nemer, Areej M.
Al Anazi, Rawan A.
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description Medulloblastoma is more common in young age and rare in adult age. Some characteristics that characterize medulloblastoma in adults compared with children: Lateral cerebellar location, heterogeneous signal intensity on magnetic resonance imaging, desmoplastic histological variant and more favorable prognosis. Preoperative diagnosis is important for correct management of these patients. However, because of the low incidence of medulloblastoma in adults, preoperative diagnosis still challenging and prognostic factors and best treatment options are still controversial. We report a case of a 31-year-old male patient who presented with a rare case of posterior fossa medulloblastoma.
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spelling pubmed-62983732019-02-20 Adult Desmoplastic Medulloblastoma Al Anazi, Abdulrahman H. Hendam, Ahmed T. Al Nemer, Areej M. Al Anazi, Rawan A. Saudi J Med Med Sci Case Report Medulloblastoma is more common in young age and rare in adult age. Some characteristics that characterize medulloblastoma in adults compared with children: Lateral cerebellar location, heterogeneous signal intensity on magnetic resonance imaging, desmoplastic histological variant and more favorable prognosis. Preoperative diagnosis is important for correct management of these patients. However, because of the low incidence of medulloblastoma in adults, preoperative diagnosis still challenging and prognostic factors and best treatment options are still controversial. We report a case of a 31-year-old male patient who presented with a rare case of posterior fossa medulloblastoma. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 2017-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6298373/ /pubmed/30787782 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-631X.204861 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Saudi Journal of Medicine & Medical Sciences 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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Al Anazi, Abdulrahman H.
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Al Nemer, Areej M.
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Adult Desmoplastic Medulloblastoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6298373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30787782
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-631X.204861
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