Volume 19, Number 2, 101-103, DOI: 10.1007/BF02478935

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Extensive and dense calcification in the core of a ventrally exophytic brainstem glioma

Maki Niimi, Kazunari Yoshida, Keita Mayanagi and Takeshi Kawase

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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.

Key words  Brainstem glioma - Calcification - Exophytic

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