R. Ergun et al., SUBEPENDYMAL GIANT-CELL ASTROCYTOMA ASSOCIATED WITH TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS - CASE-REPORT, Neurosurgical review, 21(2-3), 1998, pp. 185-188
Tuberous sclerosis is a neurocutaneous syndrome with a wide variety of
clinical, pathologic, and radiologic manifestations. Intracranial pha
komatosis has been reported to include subependymal nodules; cortical
tubers, and subependymal giant-cell astrocytomas. Subependymal giant-c
ell astrocytomas are rare, benign brain tumors of unknown histogenesis
which cause increased intracranial pressure, seizures, and focal neur
ologic signs. The only treatment of these tumors is total surgical rem
oval, because they are not sensitive to irradiation and chemotherapy.
We report a patient with tuberous sclerosis who underwent surgery for
a large subependymal giant-cell astrocytoma.