| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF4 4XW, UK;(2) Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TH, UK |
| Abstract: | BackgroundThe authors present the case of a 31-year-old man with a malignant glioma. He had been treated for cerebral hydatid as a child, and 22 years later he developed a glioma at the site of his previous disease.DiscussionCould chronic inflammatory change following intracranial hydatid disease have induced neoplastic transformation of glial cells? |
