Medical Case Studies

  • Abbreviation: Med. Case Stud.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-6532
  • DOI: 10.5897/MCS
  • Start Year: 2010
  • Published Articles: 43

Case Report

A case report of medulloblastoma in the cerebellopontine angle in 1-year old child

Átila Barros Magalhães
  • Átila Barros Magalhães
  • Universidade do Estado do Pará (UEPA) campus XII, Santarém, Pará, Brazil.
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Camilla Daniella Ricardo de Azevedo
  • Camilla Daniella Ricardo de Azevedo
  • Universidade do Estado do Pará (UEPA) campus XII, Santarém, Pará, Brazil.
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Joana de Sousa Ribeiro
  • Joana de Sousa Ribeiro
  • Universidade do Estado do Pará (UEPA) campus XII, Santarém, Pará, Brazil.
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Brunno Gomes Pinho
  • Brunno Gomes Pinho
  • Universidade do Estado do Pará (UEPA) campus XII, Santarém, Pará, Brazil.
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Herison Harrider Silva Vaz
  • Herison Harrider Silva Vaz
  • Universidade do Estado do Pará (UEPA) campus XII, Santarém, Pará, Brazil.
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João Fabrício Palheta da Silva
  • João Fabrício Palheta da Silva
  • Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Regional do Baixo Amazonas Dr. Waldemar Penna, Santarém, Pará, Brazil.
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Feliciano Cordeiro Vassoler Macedo
  • Feliciano Cordeiro Vassoler Macedo
  • Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Regional do Baixo Amazonas Dr. Waldemar Penna, Santarém, Pará, Brazil.
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Erik Leonardo Jennings Simões
  • Erik Leonardo Jennings Simões
  • Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Regional do Baixo Amazonas Dr. Waldemar Penna, Santarém, Pará, Brazil.
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  •  Received: 18 February 2021
  •  Accepted: 08 April 2021
  •  Published: 30 April 2021

Abstract

Medulloblastomas (MB) are malignant embryonic neuroepithelial tumors of the cerebellum, accounting for 25% of primary tumors of the Central Nervous System of childhood, which predominantly grow in the cerebellar vermis and hardly in the cerebellopontine angle (CPA). The study aims to report the surgical management of a childhood medulloblastoma in CPA. The author reports the case of a 1-year-old male child who initially presented with right hemifacial weakness for 40 days. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the skull showed lesion in the cerebellar cistern. Subjected to surgical excision of the lesion with histopathological and immunohistochemical results of medulloblastoma. This neuroectodermal tumor localization is rare and aggressive, been an unusual differential diagnosis of lymphomas, schwannoma and meningioma. Thus, histopathology is the most reliable method for diagnosing the tumor.

Key words: Medulloblastoma, cerebellopontine angle, tumor.