Cerebral and cerebellar glial tumors in the same individual

Neurosurgery. 1992 Mar;30(3):439-41. doi: 10.1227/00006123-199203000-00024.

Abstract

We report histologically different gliomas occurring simultaneously in both the cerebrum and cerebellum in a 53-year-old woman. One tumor was a cerebellar astrocytoma, and the second was a temporal glioblastoma multiforme. Two months after the removal of both tumors, the third lesion, located in the basal ganglia, was found on a computed tomographic examination, but it was not verified histologically. We recommend a biopsy of one tumor when a diagnosis of multiple brain tumors is established based on a computed tomographic examination, in order to avoid the misdiagnosis of multicentric gliomas as brain metastases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Astrocytoma / pathology*
  • Astrocytoma / surgery
  • Basal Ganglia*
  • Biopsy
  • Brain Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Brain Neoplasms / secondary
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery
  • Cerebellar Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Cerebellar Neoplasms / surgery
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Glioblastoma / pathology*
  • Glioblastoma / surgery
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary*
  • Temporal Lobe*