Identification of Leptomeningeal Medulloblastoma with Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Devastating Differential of Acute Disseminated Encephomyelitis

J Paediatr Child Health. 2018 Aug;54(8):929-930. doi: 10.1111/jpc.14094.

Authors

Sinead M McGlacken-Byrne¹, Kathleen M Gorman^{1

2}, Niamh K Lagan¹, Ian Robinson³, Michael Farrell⁴, Mary D King^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Paediatric Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Temple St Children's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
² Academic Centre on Rare Diseases, School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
³ Department of Paediatric Radiology, Temple St Children's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
⁴ Department of Neuropathology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

PMID: 30133899
DOI: 10.1111/jpc.14094

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Child, Preschool
Contrast Media
Diagnosis, Differential
Disease Progression
Electroencephalography / methods*
Encephalomyelitis, Acute Disseminated / diagnosis
Encephalomyelitis, Acute Disseminated / diagnostic imaging*
Fatal Outcome
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
Male
Medulloblastoma / diagnosis
Medulloblastoma / diagnostic imaging*
Meningeal Neoplasms / diagnosis
Meningeal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*

Substances

Contrast Media