Medulloblastoma in an Adult Female Patient: A Rare Presentation

Medulloblastoma (MB) is an aggressive malignant tumor of the posterior fossa of the CNS that mainly affects children younger than 15 years of age. It is uncommon in the adult population compared to children. Any adult patient presenting with cerebellar mass must be evaluated with brain tissue biopsy...

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Autores principales: Mandal, Shobha, Singh, Bishnu, Gami, Sumit, Shah, Sunil, Poulose, Joyson
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8405177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34513353
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16713
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author Mandal, Shobha
Singh, Bishnu
Gami, Sumit
Shah, Sunil
Poulose, Joyson
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description Medulloblastoma (MB) is an aggressive malignant tumor of the posterior fossa of the CNS that mainly affects children younger than 15 years of age. It is uncommon in the adult population compared to children. Any adult patient presenting with cerebellar mass must be evaluated with brain tissue biopsy to rule out MB. Our patient is a 27-year-old female who presented with sudden onset of frontal headache and was diagnosed with MB.
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spelling pubmed-84051772021-09-09 Medulloblastoma in an Adult Female Patient: A Rare Presentation Mandal, Shobha Singh, Bishnu Gami, Sumit Shah, Sunil Poulose, Joyson Cureus Internal Medicine Medulloblastoma (MB) is an aggressive malignant tumor of the posterior fossa of the CNS that mainly affects children younger than 15 years of age. It is uncommon in the adult population compared to children. Any adult patient presenting with cerebellar mass must be evaluated with brain tissue biopsy to rule out MB. Our patient is a 27-year-old female who presented with sudden onset of frontal headache and was diagnosed with MB. Cureus 2021-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8405177/ /pubmed/34513353 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16713 Text en Copyright © 2021, Mandal et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Mandal, Shobha
Singh, Bishnu
Gami, Sumit
Shah, Sunil
Poulose, Joyson
Medulloblastoma in an Adult Female Patient: A Rare Presentation
title Medulloblastoma in an Adult Female Patient: A Rare Presentation
title_full Medulloblastoma in an Adult Female Patient: A Rare Presentation
title_fullStr Medulloblastoma in an Adult Female Patient: A Rare Presentation
title_full_unstemmed Medulloblastoma in an Adult Female Patient: A Rare Presentation
title_short Medulloblastoma in an Adult Female Patient: A Rare Presentation
title_sort medulloblastoma in an adult female patient: a rare presentation
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8405177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34513353
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16713
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