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Direct infiltration of brainstem glioma along the cranial nerves.

Ree A, Jain R, Rock J, Rosenblum M, Patel SC

Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA.

The authors describe a case of a low-grade brainstem glioma extending along the cranial nerves without any evidence of leptomeningeal spread. The tumor extended directly along the VII-VIIIth cranial nerve complex and also along the trigeminal nerve, which is quite an unusual characteristic of the glial tumors.

Published 4 March 2005 in J Neuroimaging, 15(2): 197-9.
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