Affiliations: Department of Neurosurgery, Sanjay Gandhi Post
Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India | Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of
Medical Sciences, Delhi, India
Note: [] Correspondence: Dr. Arun Tungaria, Department
of Neurosurgery, New MRA-208, SGPGIMS campus, Rai Bareli Road, Lucknow, PIN
226014, Uttar Pradesh, India. Tel.: +91 9235693774; E-mail:
aruntungaria@indiatimes.com
Abstract: Glioblastoma in young patient presenting as recurrent intracerebral
hemorrhage is rare event, only few cases have been reported in world
literature. Intratumoral bleeding can be the sole and first manifestation of
glioblastoma in children. It is difficult to say that the events like
dehydration and infection can precipitate such bleeding in tumor. It should be
emphasized that possibility of tumoral bleeding should be kept in mind while
evaluating young patient with spontaneous supratentorial intracranial
hemorrhage with negative angiogram and should be treated on an emergency basis.
We are reporting a case of glioblastoma in a patient aged 17 years with
clinical and radiological features suggestive of cortical venous thrombosis.
Keywords: Glioblastoma, tumoral bleeding, children
