Hirano H, Yokoyama S, Nakayama M, Nagata S, Kuratsu J
Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Japan.
Neuroradiology. 2000 Oct;42(10):732-4. doi: 10.1007/s002340000380.
We report a 63-year-old man who had a rare bilateral thalamic glioma. He complained of difficulty with calculations and had mental deterioration. T1-weighted images revealed bilateral thalamic swelling with homogeneous low signal and no contrast enhancement. The tumour, showing decrease of N-acetylaspartate and the presence of lactate on magnetic resonance spectroscopy, was diagnosed as an astrocytoma by stereotactic biopsy.