Abstract
Prognosis of 26 children with intracranial germ-cell tumors (17 germinomas and 9 teratomas) treated in a 10 year period is reported from the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.
Highlights
NEVOID BASAL-CELL CARCINOMA (GORLIN) SYNDROME A unique case of a 15-year-old girl with nevoid basal-cell carcinoma (NBCCS), who presented with uncontrolled temporal lobe epilepsy due to neuronal heterotopia, is reported from the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia
Temporal lobectomy specimen showed neuronal heterotopias and cortical dysplasia. She was seizure free at 6 months follow-up. (Hogan RE et al Epilepsy in the nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome (Gorlin syndrome): Report of a case due to a focal neuronal heterotopia
Nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome presents at puberty with multiple basal-cell carcinomata, palmar and plantar pits, odontogenic painful cysts of the mandible, facial paresthesia, macrocephaly, large stature, frontal bossing, broad nasal bridge, narrow shoulders, fused ribs, Polydactyly, bone cysts, calcified falx, cervical spina bifida occulta, odontoid agenesis, corpus callosum agenesis, meningioma, and medulloblastoma
Summary
NEVOID BASAL-CELL CARCINOMA (GORLIN) SYNDROME A unique case of a 15-year-old girl with nevoid basal-cell carcinoma (NBCCS), who presented with uncontrolled temporal lobe epilepsy due to neuronal heterotopia, is reported from the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia. (Hogan RE et al Epilepsy in the nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome (Gorlin syndrome): Report of a case due to a focal neuronal heterotopia. Nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome presents at puberty with multiple basal-cell carcinomata, palmar and plantar pits, odontogenic painful cysts of the mandible, facial paresthesia, macrocephaly, large stature, frontal bossing, broad nasal bridge, narrow shoulders, fused ribs, Polydactyly, bone cysts, calcified falx, cervical spina bifida occulta, odontoid agenesis, corpus callosum agenesis, meningioma, and medulloblastoma.
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