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| Year : 1999 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 142--4 |
Glioblastoma multiforme following prophylactic cranial irradiation and intrathecal methotrexate in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia : a case report.
DP Muzumdar, K Desai, A Goel
Departments of Neurosurgery and Neuropathology, K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai, 12, India., India
Correspondence Address:
D P Muzumdar
Departments of Neurosurgery and Neuropathology, K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai, 12, India.
India
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PMID: 10402343 
A 12 year old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia had received prophylactic cranial irradiation (2000 cGy/15 days) and intrathecal methotrexate. Six years later he was diagnosed to have glioblastoma in left temporoparietal region. There is a strong possibility that the glioma may have been radiation and/or chemotherapy induced.
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