Shuto T, Ohtsubo Y, Sekido K, Iwamoto H, Yamamoto I
Department of Neurosurgery, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
Childs Nerv Syst. 1996 Feb;12(2):107-9. doi: 10.1007/BF00819508.
We report the case of an infant with a cerebellar astrocytoma that showed marked calcification within only 6 months. In general, only slow-growing tumors tend to calcify. To our knowledge, no other case of such rapid calcification in cerebellar astrocytoma has been reported.
