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Glioma after cerebral hydatid disease
E J St George1, C E M Hillier, R Hatfield
1Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, CF4 4XW, Cardiff, UK. edward.st.george@lineone.net
Abstract
Background:
The authors present the case of a 31-year-old man with a malignant glioma. He had been treated for cerebral hydatid as a child, and 22 years later he developed a glioma at the site of his previous disease.
Discussion:
Could chronic inflammatory change following intracranial hydatid disease have induced neoplastic transformation of glial cells?