Purohit A K, Dinakar I, Sundaram C, Ratnakar K S
Department of Neurosurgery, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Panjagutta, India.
Childs Nerv Syst. 1990 Mar;6(2):113-5. doi: 10.1007/BF00307934.
Intramedullary tumors of the spinal cord in childhood are usually of low grades (grades I and II) and are most commonly seen in the cervical and cervicothoracic regions. They present with symptoms and signs of spinal cord tumor. It is uncommon to find an anaplastic astrocytoma situated in the thoracolumbar segment of the spinal cord. Whereas papilledema and raised intracranial symptoms have been reported in about 12.5% of cases of spinal cord tumors it is rare to find them presenting initially only with symptoms of raised intracranial pressure and only later followed by spinal cord symptoms. The case of an 11-year-old female child is reported here because of a combination of these two rare features.
儿童脊髓髓内肿瘤通常为低级别（I级和II级），最常见于颈段和颈胸段。它们表现出脊髓肿瘤的症状和体征。位于脊髓胸腰段的间变性星形细胞瘤并不常见。虽然在约12.5%的脊髓肿瘤病例中报告有视乳头水肿和颅内压升高症状，但很少发现它们最初仅表现为颅内压升高症状，随后才出现脊髓症状。本文报告了一名11岁女童的病例，因其具有这两种罕见特征。
