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14762681

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-2-5
pubmed:abstractText
PATIENT: We report on an unusual case of a recurrent and progressive spinal pilocytic astrocytoma with metastatic spreading to the hypothalamus in a 14-year-old boy. TREATMENT AND RESULTS: The patient underwent resection of an intramedullary atypical pilocytic astrocytoma classified as WHO grade II at the level of Th11/12 in 1997 and received local photon beam irradiation. Three years later, a second operation was necessary for a recurrent tumour at the same level. Seventeen months later, a second recurrent tumour with spinal seeding as well as an intracranial tumour in the third ventricle and hypothalamus was detected. He was shunted for an occlusive hydrocephalus and a stereotactic biopsy of the hypothalamic lesion was performed. The tumour was classified as anaplastic pilocytic astrocytoma (WHO grade III). He received chemotherapy with ifosfamide, cisplatin and etoposide (HIT-GBM-C-protocol), craniospinal radiation, and is still alive 60 months after the first operative intervention without neurological deficits.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0256-7040
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
114-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Recurrent spinal cord astrocytoma with intraventricular seeding.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurosurgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377 Munich, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports