Supratentorial juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma in a young adult with Silver–Russell syndrome

Abstract

Silver–Russell syndrome is a rare genetically heterogeneous disorder in which patients demonstrate intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation, triangular facies, excessive sweating during early childhood, late closure of the anterior fontanelle and skeletal asymmetry. An association with malignancy exists and only one previous intracranial tumour has been reported, a craniopharyngioma. We report the first case of Silver–Russell syndrome associated with a supratentorial juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma.