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DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1736157
Extended Cranial Ultrasound Views in Infants with Acute Brain Stem/Infratentorial Lesions: Diagnosis of a Progressive Midline Glioma in a 6-Week-Old Infant
Abstract
Central nervous system (CNS) tumors are the most common solid tumors in children and adolescents. However, in neonates and children aged younger than a year, they are very rare. Clinical presentation in neonates is often subtle and nonspecific. When neurological symptoms are apparent at this age, cranial ultrasound (CUS) is often done as the initial evaluation, with a standard approach through the anterior fontanel (AF), followed by further imaging, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), if necessary. We report the first neonatal case of a rapidly progressive diffuse midline glioma positive for histone H3 K27M mutation (World Health Organization [WHO] grade IV) in which using extended (transmastoid) CUS studies through the mastoid fontanelle (MF) in the second month of life defined the lesion in the brainstem.
Publikationsverlauf
Eingereicht: 25. Dezember 2020
Angenommen: 08. August 2021
Artikel online veröffentlicht:
28. September 2021
© 2021. The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction so long as the original work is properly cited. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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