Raritní multiplicita život ohrožujících expanzivních procesů

• Title in English: Rare multiplicity in life-threatening expansive processes
• Authors: CHRASTINA Jan; NOVÁK Zdeněk; ŘÍHA Ivo; JANČÁLEK Radim; SHAQBUA Motaman; GHALLAB Khaled
• Year of publication: 2010
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Neurologie pro praxi
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Medicine
• Web: http://www.onkologiecs.cz/
• Field: Neurology, neurosurgery, neurosciences
• Keywords: Hydrocephalus; Posterior fossa arachnoid cyst; Glioblastoma multiforme
• Description: The aim of the paper is to prezent case report of a patient with unique triplicity of life threatening intracranial expansions. Imaging studies performed after surgical treatment of hydrocephalus and posterior fossa arachnoid cyst revealed rapidly progressive right temporal lobe tumor. The result of histological evaluation of the resected tumor was glioblastoma multiforme. Relevant literature data related to the possibilities of surgical treatment of similar coincident pathologies are reviewed.

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