April 2021

A case report of medulloblastoma in the cerebellopontine angle in 1-year old child

Medulloblastomas (MB) are malignant embryonic neuroepithelial tumors of the cerebellum, accounting for 25% of primary tumors of the Central Nervous System of childhood, which predominantly grow in the cerebellar vermis and hardly in the cerebellopontine angle (CPA). The study aims to report the surgical management of a childhood medulloblastoma in CPA. The author reports the case of a 1-year-old male child who initially...

Author(s): Átila Barros Magalhães, Camilla Daniella Ricardo de Azevedo, Joana de Sousa Ribeiro, Brunno Gomes Pinho, Herison Harrider Silva Vaz, João Fabrício Palheta da Silva, Feliciano Cordeiro Vassoler Macedo and Erik Leonardo Jennings Simões