Atypical Presentation of Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor in a Child
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Atypical Presentation of Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor in a Child
Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor (ATRT) is a rare malignant intracranial neoplasm more commonly diagnosed in young children. The authors report the case of an 11-year-old boy with a long standing history of slowly progressive weight loss, fatigue, and weakness over 1.5 years whose magnetic resonance imaging revealed a large heterogeneous enhancing dorsally exophytic lower brainstem mass. Examin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Oncological Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2090-6706,2090-6714
DOI: 10.1155/2013/815923