Head trauma and brain tumours revisited

The authors report a case of an anaplastic astrocytoma which on magnetic re sonance imaging and direct visualisation was continuous with an area of gli osis in the left frontal robe, This gliosis was secondary to a head injury received 19 years earlier that required evacuation of an intracerebral haem atom. This case largely meets the accepted criteria for brain tumour associ ated with head trauma. (C) 2000 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.