Glioma and multiple sclerosis: case report

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Lineu Cesar Werneck¹  Rosana Herminia Scola¹  Walter Oleschko Arruda¹  Luiz Fernando Bleggi Torres¹ 

[1],Universidade Federal do Paraná Hospital de Clínicas Curitiba PR ,Brazil

关键词: multiple sclerosis;    anaplastic astrocytoma;    cerebral neoplasm;    esclerose múltipla;    astrocitoma anaplásico;    tumor cerebral;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0004-282X2002000300024

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

We report a case of a 44-years-old woman with relapsing-remitting and secondarily progressive form of multiple sclerosis (MS) since aged 24 years, who developed an anaplastic astrocytoma. The neurological manifestations of the tumor were misinterpreted as resulting from MS. Sequential MRI examination and seizures raised the possibility of another nature of her symptoms, besides MS. Her initial good response to high doses corticosteroids led to the initial assumption her symptoms were only exclusively due to the demyelinating process. She underwent craniotomy with radical excision of the lesion. Pathological examination disclosed anaplastic astrocytoma. Other cases of coincidental MS and primary CNS tumors are reviewed, as well as their possible relation.

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