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A case of Turcot's syndrome is described in an 8-year-old girl. Turcot's syndrome is a rare hereditary disease in which malignant glioma of the central nervous system is associated with colonic polyposis. The patient initially presented with a left parietal glioblastoma diagnosed by computed tomography (CT), and was subsequently found to have nonfamilial colonic polyposis.
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Scribano, E., Loria, G., Ascenti, G. et al. Turcot's syndrome: a new case in the first decade of life. Abdom Imaging 20, 155–156 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00201527
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00201527