Increased intracranial pressure in a case of spinal cervical glioblastoma multiforme. Analysis of these two rare conditions.
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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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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
دوره 52 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994