The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics 2004 , Vol 46 , Num 2
Primary cerebral neuroblastoma: a case treated with adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy

Departments of 1Pediatric Oncology, Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey

Departments of Radiation Oncology, Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey

Departments of Pathology, Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey

Abstract

Yarış N, Yavuz MN, Reis A, Yavuz AA, Ökten A. Primary cerebral neuroblastoma: a case treated with adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Turk J Pediatr 2004; 46: 182-185.

Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor of childhood. A wide variety of tumor locations and clinical presentations have been described. However, neuroblastoma is rarely located in the central nervous system, except in the case of esthesioneuroblastoma. We report a child with primary central nervous system (CNS) neuroblastoma who admitted to the hospital in coma. The tumor could be partially removed in our patient. After surgery, we treated the patient successfully with combined radiotherapy and eight courses of cisplatin-based chemotherapy. Our patient was followed-up for 34 months without any evidence of relapse.

We recommend that CNS neuroblastoma be treated according to the same principles used in medulloblastoma.

Keywords : neuroblastoma brain childhood
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