Gliomatosis Cerebri
Mehmet Akif TOPÇUOĞLU1, İsmail ÇEREZCİ2, Figen SÖYLEMEZOĞLU3, Kaynak SELEKLER4
1Hacettepe Üniverersitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Nöroloji Anabilim Dalı, ANKARA
2Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Radyoloji AD.
3Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Patoloji AD.
4Hacettepe Universitesi Tıp Fakültesi Nöroloji AD.
Abstract
Gliomatosis cerebri is a diffuse infiltrative glial neoplasm frequently involving bothcerebral hemisphere. The clinical findings are nonspecific and disproportionate to the extent of brain involvement.. MRI is better than CT in the diagnosis. Certain diagnosis was only made by using post-mortem histopathological investigation. Nevertheless, awareness ot this entity and correlation of clinical, radiologic and multiple stereotactic biopsy findings may give way to antemortem diagnosis. There is no long term effective treatment, and prognosis remains very poor.