A case report: A non-infantile desmoplastic astrocytoma
Articles > Article · 2008
Authors: Mustafa Onur Ulu, Necmettin Tanriover, Hüseyin BİÇEROĞLU, Buge Oz, Buelent Canbaz
TURKISH NEUROSURGERY, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2008, vol 18, pp 42-46
Summary
INTRODUCTION and CASE DESCRIPTION: Desmoplastic infantile astrocytomas (DIA) are rare intracranial tumors of infancy with distinctive clinical and radiological features. Despite their radiologically aggressive appearance they tend to follow a benign course with favorable prognosis even after subtotal resections. Non-infantile cases are rarely encountered with only four cases reported before. The authors present a non-infantile DIA in a 4 years old female patient and discuss the clinical features, diagnosis, treatment of this rare entity.