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Rapidly growing calcified cerebellar astrocytoma in infants |
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| Authors: | Takashi Shuto Yutaka Ohtsubo Ken'ichi Sekido Hiroko Iwamoto Isao Yamamoto |
| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Neurosurgery, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, 2-138-4, Mutsukawa, Minamiku, 232 Yokohama, Japan;(2) Department of Neurosurgery, Odawara Municipal Hospital, 46, Kuno, 250 Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan;(3) Department of Neurology, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, 2-138-4, Mutsukawa, Minamiku, 232 Yokohama, Japan;(4) Department of Neurosurgery, Yokohama City University, 3-9, Fukuura, Kanazawaku, 236 Yokohama, Japan |
| Abstract: | We report the case of an infant with a cerebellar astrocytoma that showed marked calcification within only 6 months. In general, only slow-growing tumors tend to calcify. To our knowledge, no other case of such rapid calcification in cerebellar astrocytoma has been reported. |
| Keywords: | Astrocytoma Cerebellum Calcification Infant |
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