{"title":"A rare brainstem anaplastic astrocytoma.","authors":"Rongjiao You, Xiangfa Liu, Songfa Chen, Lixi Tan, Aiqun Liu, Mingfan Hong, Zhongxing Peng","doi":"10.1515/tnsci-2022-0233","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Anaplastic astrocytoma (AA) is rarely observed in the brainstem and the clinical symptoms and imaging manifestations vary, which present a great challenge to accurate clinical diagnosis.</p><p><strong>Case description: </strong>A 56-year-old woman, with a month-long history of nausea and vomiting, was first diagnosed with acute cerebral infarction and demyelinating disease. The patient showed negative results on enhanced magnetic resonance and <sup>18</sup>F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography, and the clinical symptoms were not typical, leading to early misdiagnosis.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Finally, the patient was diagnosed with AA by pathological biopsy.</p>","PeriodicalId":23227,"journal":{"name":"Translational Neuroscience","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9449688/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Translational Neuroscience","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tnsci-2022-0233","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2022/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"NEUROSCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Background: Anaplastic astrocytoma (AA) is rarely observed in the brainstem and the clinical symptoms and imaging manifestations vary, which present a great challenge to accurate clinical diagnosis.
Case description: A 56-year-old woman, with a month-long history of nausea and vomiting, was first diagnosed with acute cerebral infarction and demyelinating disease. The patient showed negative results on enhanced magnetic resonance and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography, and the clinical symptoms were not typical, leading to early misdiagnosis.
Conclusion: Finally, the patient was diagnosed with AA by pathological biopsy.
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Translational Neuroscience provides a closer interaction between basic and clinical neuroscientists to expand understanding of brain structure, function and disease, and translate this knowledge into clinical applications and novel therapies of nervous system disorders.
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