Case Report: Primary Leptomeningeal Medulloblastoma in a Child: Clinical Case Report and Literature Review.

ABSTRACT: Medulloblastoma is one of the most common pediatric central nervous system malignancies worldwide, and it is characterized by frequent leptomeningeal metastasizing. We report a rare case of primary leptomeningeal medulloblastoma of an 11-year-old Caucasian girl with a long-term disease history, non-specific clinical course, and challenges in the diagnosis verification. To date, 4 cases of pediatric primary leptomeningeal medulloblastoma are reported, and all of them are associated with unfavorable outcomes. The approaches of neuroimaging and diagnosis verification are analyzed in the article to provide opportunities for effective diagnosis of this disease in clinical practice. The reported clinical case of the primary leptomeningeal medulloblastoma is characterized by MR images with non-sp

SUBMITTER: Morgacheva D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9309486 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature