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Rapidly growing calcified cerebellar astrocytoma in infants

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We report the case of an infant with a cerebellar astrocytoma that showed marked calcification within only 6 months. In general, only slow-growing tumors tend to calcify. To our knowledge, no other case of such rapid calcification in cerebellar astrocytoma has been reported.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, 2-138-4, Mutsukawa, Minamiku, 232, Yokohama, Japan

    Takashi Shuto, Yutaka Ohtsubo & Ken'ichi Sekido

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Odawara Municipal Hospital, 46, Kuno, 250, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan

    Takashi Shuto

  3. Department of Neurology, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, 2-138-4, Mutsukawa, Minamiku, 232, Yokohama, Japan

    Hiroko Iwamoto

  4. Department of Neurosurgery, Yokohama City University, 3-9, Fukuura, Kanazawaku, 236, Yokohama, Japan

    Isao Yamamoto

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Shuto, T., Ohtsubo, Y., Sekido, K. et al. Rapidly growing calcified cerebellar astrocytoma in infants. Child's Nerv Syst 12, 107–109 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00819508

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