Fatal hemorrhage in a cerebral pilocytic astrocytoma-adult type.

Acta Neuropathol

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Neuropathology, UCLA Center for Health Sciences 90024.

Published: October 1991

A 69-year-old female presented with a 6-week history of left-sided weakness and a large cerebral mass on computed tomographic scan and magnetic resonance imaging. The patient subsequently had an acute intracerebral hemorrhage with uncal and tonsillar herniation. Postmortem examination revealed an acute cerebral hemorrhage from a pilocytic astrocytoma-adult type. These cerebral neoplasms are rarely associated with hemorrhage.

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