Posterior fossa neoplasm and PHACES syndrome: a case report

J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2009 Mar;31(3):203-5. doi: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e3181983b15.

Abstract

A 4-year-old girl with PHACES syndrome (posterior fossa brain malformations, hemangiomas, arterial anomalies, cardiac anomalies/coarctation of the aorta, eye abnormalities, and sternal clefting/supraumbilical raphe) developed a cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma 18 months after resolution of her neck, ear, and thoracic hemangiomas. Because cutaneous hemangiomas may have involuted by the time a patient is diagnosed with a central nervous system neoplasm, it seems possible that in other such patients the association may have gone unrecognized. Cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma may be a rare manifestation of the posterior fossa malformations of PHACES.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple* / pathology
  • Abnormalities, Multiple* / physiopathology
  • Astrocytoma / etiology*
  • Astrocytoma / pathology
  • Brain / abnormalities*
  • Brain / pathology
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / complications
  • Hemangioma / complications*
  • Hemangioma / congenital
  • Humans
  • Infratentorial Neoplasms / etiology*
  • Infratentorial Neoplasms / pathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Angiography
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Syndrome