Adult Medulloblastoma Presenting with Extensive Supratentorial Metastasis with Radiographically Occult Infratentorial Disease: Case Report and Review of the Literature

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Karra Jones Scott Seaman Taylor Abel Toshio Moritani Varun Monga

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Scott Seaman
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA

A B S T R A C T

This case represents the unique occurrence of supratentorial dissemination of medulloblastoma in the absence of overt cerebellar disease. The authors present the case of a 64-year-old man who presented with headaches and intractable nausea with imaging abnormality seen only in the bilateral caudate. Follow-up imaging studies revealed a cerebellar lesion later confirmed by biopsy to be medulloblastoma. Subsequent biopsy of the originally evaluated caudate lesion demonstrated histologically identical medulloblastoma. Medulloblastoma should be considered in cases of supratentorial masses of unclear origin and should prompt careful inspection of the posterior fossa.

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Case Report & Review of Literature

Publication history

Received: Wed 25, Dec 2019
Accepted: Wed 08, Jan 2020
Published: Thu 30, Jan 2020

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© 2023 Scott Seaman. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.AJSCR.2019.01.08