Delayed frontal lobe malignancy in a child treated for medulloblastoma
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2005
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RIVISTA DI NEURORADIOLOGIA
Abstract
A high grade astrocytoma developing following radiotherapy for a medulloblastoma is reported in a six-year-old girl. The latency period was unusually short. The stigmata of Von Recklinghausen's disease in this patient suggest a genetic propensity, though radiation for the primary tumor is considered a more likely predisposing factor in addition to the increased likelihood of development of second malignant tumor in survivors of childhood cancer.
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Neurosciences & Neurology; Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
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18 ,3;376-380