Open AccessPost-Traumatic Glioblastoma Multiforme: A Case Report
Author(s) -
Şahin Çoşkun,
Aysenur Coskun,
Nesrin Gürsan,
Mehmet Dumlu Aydın
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the eurasian journal of medicine
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1308-8742
pISSN - 1308-8734
DOI - 10.5152/eajm.2011.10
Subject(s) - medicine , glioblastoma , glioma , hasta , depression (economics) , lesion , brain trauma , surgery , traumatic brain injury , psychiatry , cancer research , economics , macroeconomics
Malignant glioma development after trauma is a rare occurrence. We report a glioblastoma multiforme case that developed after a depressed skull fracture. A 65-year-old man was admitted because of right sided hemiplegia, epilepsy and changes in consciousness due to a malignant glial tumor. He had been operated on for a left calvarial depression fracture caused by cerebral laceration thirty-five years before. Radiologic imaging revealed a large contrast-enhanced mass lesion at the left frontotemporoparietal junction under the depression site. The patient underwent urgent surgery, and radical excision of the mass was achieved. The histopathologic diagnosis was a high-grade glial tumor. Although the possibility of a pre-existing tumor rather than a trauma-induced tumor is very high, the presented case suggests that traumatic cerebral lesions may also be a predisposing factor for the development of malignant glial tumors.