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Volume 23 |
April - June 2007 (Part-I) |
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Medulloblastoma: A life threatening cancer
of infancy and childhoodNadeem Reyaz1, Nadia Naseem2, Saeed Akhtar Khan3, Naseer Ahmad Chaudhry4
ABSTRACT
Medulloblastoma is a rare and aggressive tumor of the brain that usually occurs in children or young adults with a tendency to metastasize. The incidence in infant is rare. We came across one such child who presented with slight disorientation, vomiting, irritable personality and somewhat large size head. The clinical, radiological preoperative diagnosis was space occupying lesion in the posterior fossa. On histological examination it turned out to be Medulloblastoma of infratentorial region in posterior fossa.
KEY WORDS: Medulloblastoma, Posterior fossa, Tentorium.
Pak J Med Sci April 2007 Vol. 23 No. 2 275-277
1. Dr. Nadeem Reyaz
Department of Histopathology,
Gulab Devi Hospital,
Lahore - Pakistan.
2. Dr. Nadia Naseem,
3. Dr Saeed Akhtar Khan
4. Prof. Naseer Ahmad Chaudhry
Head of Pathology Department,
University of Health Sciences,
Lahore - Pakistan.
Correspondence
Dr. Nadeem Reyaz
E-mail: drnadeemreyaz@yahoo.com
* Received for publication: June 2, 2006
* Accepted: October 2, 2006
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