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Brain Stem Glioma in Childhood: Acute Hemiplegic Onset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

S.J. Rothman  and
C.W. Olanow
S.J. Rothman*
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine (Neurology) and Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina
C.W. Olanow
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine (Neurology) and Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina
*
F.R.C.P. (C), P.O. Box 3533, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27710
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Two children, age seven and 16 years, are described with the abrupt onset of a pure motor hemiplegia as the initial manifestation of a brain stem neoplasm. Subsequent rapid neurological deterioration localized the lesion to the brain stem and glioblastoma multiforme was diagnosed by surgical biopsy. It is suggested that brain stem gliomas with this unusual presentation are likely to be highly malignant and prone to rapid bulbar deterioration.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , August 1981 , pp. 263 - 264
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1981

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