Neurológia pre prax 3/2010

Rare multiplicity in life-threatening expansive processes

The aim of the paper is to prezent case report of a patient with unique triplicity of life threatening intracranial expansions. Imaging studies performed after surgical treatment of hydrocephalus and posterior fossa arachnoid cyst revealed rapidly progressive right temporal lobe tumor. The result of histological evaluation of the resected tumor was glioblastoma multiforme. Relevant literature data related to the possibilities of surgical treatment of similar coincident pathologies are reviewed.

Keywords: hydrocephalus, posterior fossa arachnoid cyst, glioblastoma multiforme.