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Meduloblastoma

Last reviewed: 24 Mar 2025
Last updated: 24 Jan 2025

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • cefaleia
  • náuseas e vômitos
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Other diagnostic factors

  • alterações comportamentais
  • diplopia
  • oftalmoplegias
  • fontanela anterior abaulada
  • papiledema
  • nistagmo
  • inclinação da cabeça
  • ataxia
  • dismetria
  • letargia
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Risk factors

  • idade entre 1 e 9 anos
  • sexo masculino
  • síndromes familiares hereditárias associadas
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) cranioencefálica
  • tomografia computadorizada (TC) cerebral
  • histologia
  • RNM da coluna cervical, torácica e lombar
  • punção lombar
  • ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) pós-operatória
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

idade <3 anos

≥3 anos de idade

Contributors

Authors

Tobey J. MacDonald, MD

Professor

Department of Pediatrics

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta

GA

Disclosures

TJM declares that he has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Dr Tobey J. MacDonald would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Gail Horan, Dr Fiona Harris, Dr Thankamma V. Ajithkumar, Dr Sindu Vivekanandan, Dr Barry Pizer, Dr Michael J. Fisher, Dr Phillip B. Storm, and Dr Gregory G. Heuer, the previous contributors to this topic.

Disclosures

GH carries out lectures and paid consultancy work for Janssen, and holds shares in GenesisCare. GH and TVA are authors of references cited in this topic. FH, SV, BP, MJF, PBS, and GGH declare that they have no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

David Rowed, MD

Division of Neurosurgery

University of Toronto

Toronto

Ontario

Canada

Disclosures

DR declares that he has no competing interests.

Michael Vloeberghs, MD, PhD

Professor of Paediatric Neurosurgery

Nottingham University Hospital

Nottingham

UK

Disclosures

MV declares that he has no competing interests.

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