Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria (Mar 1994)

Increased intracranial pressure in a case of spinal cervical glioblastoma multiforme: analysis of these two rare conditions

  • C.M. de Castro-Costa,
  • R.W.B. de Araújo,
  • M.A. de Arruda,
  • P.M. de Araújo,
  • E.G. de Figueiredo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0004-282X1994000100011
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 52, no. 1
pp. 64 – 68

Abstract

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The authors describe a rare case of increased intracranial hypertension consequent to a spinal cervical glioblastoma multiforme in a young patient. They analyse the physiopathology of intracranial hypertension in spinal tumors and the rarity of such kind of tumor in this location, and its clinico-pathological aspects.

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