High-grade primary diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis in a child with neurofibromatosis Type 1
James A J King1, William Halliday, James M Drake
1Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia. jamesking71@hotmail.com
Journal of Neurosurgery. Pediatrics
|November 28, 2008
Abstract:
The authors report on a child with known neurofibromatosis Type 1 who developed high-grade diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis, without a known primary glioma. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of the coexistence of these conditions in a child.


