Cervical Intramedullary Spinal Cord Glioblastoma in a 10 Year-Old Child. Case Report

Abstract

Among all pediatric tumors in CNS, the intramedullary spinal cord tumors are less than one-third of 1% and only about 1-3% of them are high-grade gliomas. Intramedullary glioblastoma (GBM) is considered highly threatening because of its aggressiveness and, even with intense management, lesion progress and patients develop severe deficits. Authors report a very rare case of a 10-year-old patient with extensive cervical GBM with an unusual outcome.