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Haemorrhage in low-grade glioma is rare. A 4-year-old boy presented with sudden loss of consciousness. CT scan of his head revealed anterior third ventricular tumour with bleeding, intraventricular haemorrhage and hydrocephalus. The boy expired within 26 h of the onset of his illness, and an autopsy revealed a haemorrhagic juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma arising from the lateral hypothalamus with intraventricular haemorrhage. Intracranial tumour as the cause of sudden death and tumour with bleeding are discussed.
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Devi, I.B., Shukla, D., Bhat, D. et al. Hypothalamic tumour with haemorrhage. Child’s Nerv Syst 17, 567–569 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003810100449
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