Primary intracranial leiomyosarcoma with intra-tumoral hemorrhage: Case report and review of literature.

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Primary intracranial leiomyosarcoma with intra-tumoral hemorrhage: Case report and review of literature.

World Neurosurg. 2018 May 10;:

Authors: Torihashi K, Masaki C, Yoshida K, Narumi O, Yamagata S

Abstract
BACKGROUND: Primary intracranial leiomyosarcoma is a very rare occurrence. And primary leiomyosarcoma with intra-tumoral hemorrhage has not been published. We firstly present a case report of a rapidly enlarging primary intracranial leiomyosarcoma with intra-tumoral hemorrhage.
CASE DESCRIPTION: A 41-yr old female presented with right hemiparesis and gait disturbance. And she has the brain tumor on frontal lobe. And the tumor was increasing rapidly. Intra-tumoral hemorrhage was suddenly occurred. We removed the tumor after hemorrhage. After operation, postoperative chemotherapy and radiotherapy were not performed, but recurrence did not occur.
CONCLUSIONS: To the best our knowledge, this presents the first report of primary intracranial leiomyosarcoma with intra-tumoral hemorrhage. We firstly describe the clinical and radiological findings and the histological examination of this primary intracranial leiomyosarcoma with intra-tumoral hemorrhage.

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