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Extensive and dense calcification in the core of a ventrally exophytic brainstem glioma
Maki Niimi1, Kazunari Yoshida, Keita Mayanagi
1Department of Neurosurgery, Keio University, School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan. minmin@sc.itc.keio.ac.jp
Brain Tumor Pathology
|March 8, 2003
Abstract:
The first case of a ventrally exophytic pontine glioma with extensive and dense calcification is reported. A 10-year-old boy presented with a generalized seizure. The skull radiogram and CT scan showed a dense area of calcification, revealed by MRI as the core of a ventrally exophytic tumor. The pathologic diagnosis was fibrillary astrocytoma.