PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Maria Thom
AU  - Beatriz Gomez-Anson
AU  - Tamas Revesz
AU  - William Harkness
AU  - Ciaran J O’Brien
AU  - Rupert Kett-White
AU  - E Wyn Jones
AU  - John Stevens
AU  - Francesco Scaravilli
TI  - Spontaneous intralesional haemorrhage in dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumours: a series of five cases
AID  - 10.1136/jnnp.67.1.97
DP  - 1999 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
PG  - 97--101
VI  - 67
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/67/1/97.short
4100  - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/67/1/97.full
SO  - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry1999 Jul 01; 67
AB  - Five patients with dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumour (DNT) showing extensive secondary haemorrhage, a finding not previously associated with these neoplasms, are described. The clinical presentations, neuroimaging findings, and histopathological features of these patients are reviewed. One patient, a previously asymptomatic 12 year old girl, presented with an acute intracerebral haemorrhage into a DNT. A further four young adults with histories of intractable partial and generalised seizures dating from childhood showed significant chronic haemorrhages within DNT, the MRI appearances in one patient giving a false impression of a cavernoma. Histopathology disclosed vascular abnormalities within these tumours which, together with other factors discussed, may have predisposed these tumours to haemorrhage.