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| Year : 2006 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 21-23 |
Cerebellar glioblastoma multiforme presenting as a cerebellopontine angle mass
Anupam Jindal1, Awadhesh Kumar Jaiswal1, Sushila Jaiswal1, Paritosh Pandey1, Ashok Kumar Mahapatra1, Mehar Chand Sharma2
1 Department of Pathology, Lady Hardinge's Medical College, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Road, New Delhi - 110 001, India
2 Departments of Neurosurgery and Neuropathology, Neurosciences Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi - 110029, India
Correspondence Address:
Awadhesh Kumar Jaiswal
Department of Neurosurgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow - 226 014, UP
India
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DOI: 10.4103/1817-1745.22943
Cerebellar glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a highly malignant brain tumour, which is exceedingly rare and such tumour presenting as cerebellopontine angle (CPA) mass is even rarer. We here discuss the case of a 15-year-old girl who had cerebellar GBM presenting as CPA mass that resembled meningioma on CT scan and was managed successfully with minimal problems.
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