Open AccessGiant parietal lobe infantile gliosarcoma in a 5-year-old child
Author(s) -
Hemant V Savant,
Srikant Balasubramaniam,
Vijay Mahajan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of pediatric neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.247
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1998-3948
pISSN - 1817-1745
DOI - 10.4103/1817-1745.159194
Subject(s) - medicine , gliosarcoma , lesion , magnetic resonance imaging , craniotomy , parietal lobe , adjuvant therapy , weakness , surgery , ganglioglioma , frontal lobe , radiology , glioma , chemotherapy , cancer research , psychiatry , epilepsy
The relative frequency of pediatric gliosarcoma (GSM) is 1.9% among glioblastomas and 0.5% among pediatric central nervous system tumors. A 5-year-old female child came to us with history of fever and loss of appetite since 2 weeks and right sided weakness since 4 days. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a large heterogeneously enhancing space occupying lesion in the left parieto-occipital region. A parieto-occipital craniotomy with radical excision of tumor was performed. The patient was given adjuvant therapy following surgery and survived until 9 months following surgery. The etiopathogenesis, treatment modalities and prognosis of GSM is discussed.