RESUMO

The authors describe a rare case of increased intracranial hypertension consequent to a spinal cervical glioblastoma multiforme in a young patient. They analyse the physiopathology of intracranial hypertension in spinal tumors and the rarity of such kind of tumor in this location, and its clinico-pathological aspects.

Assuntos

Glioblastoma/complicações , Pseudotumor Cerebral/etiologia , Neoplasias da Medula Espinal/complicações , Adulto , Feminino , Glioblastoma/patologia , Humanos , Neoplasias da Medula Espinal/patologia