PEDIATRICS Vol. 47 No. 2 February 1971, pp. 451-455
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Brain Stem Glioma Causing Failure to Thrive

Robert L. Sieben M.D.1 and Nobuyoshi Ishii M.D.1

1 Departments of Neurology (Pediatric, Neurology) and Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461

A small fibrillary astrocytoma of the brain stem led to bulbar palsy, persistent regurgitation, and death from aspiration pneumonia in a 4-month-old boy. As no changes were produced in the external configuration of the brain stem, a pneumoencephalogram might not have revealed the presence of the tumor.




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