Moderate grade astrocytoma presenting in a 4-month-old child with a family history of von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis spanning four generations: a case report.

Intracranial gliomas are found in association with von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis. However, few truly neonatal lesions have been identified and studied. This case report concerns a 4-month-old child who was found to have a massive thalamic glioma of moderate grade. Four paternal generations had suffered from different manifestations of this transmissible autosomal-dominant (Ad) phakomatosis.