Author(s)

Oumar Coulibaly¹, Mahamadou Dama¹, Oumar Diallo¹, Quenum Kouassi Jean Marie Maurin Kisito², Li Gu^1,3, Boubacar Sogoba¹, Moussa Denou¹, Sieleche Auxence Christ¹, Youssouf Sogoba⁴, Mamadou Salia Diarra⁵, Alpha Singuépiré¹, Drissa Kanikomo⁴

¹Hopital du Mali, Bamako, Mali.
²Unité de Neurochirurgie, Centre Hospitalier Départemental et Universitaire de Parakou, Parakou, Benin.
³The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical School of Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.
⁴Hopital Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali.
⁵Hopital Mère-Enfant “Le Luxembourg”, Bamako, Mali.

Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (PXA) generally occurs in children and young adults and is classified as a low-grade astrocytic tumor with a potential favorable prognosis. But these data must be interpreted with much caution, because of some rapid progression or malignant transformation during the postoperative follow-up. We report herein a rare case of a cerebellar PXA manifested as a benign lesion at first time in a 39 year-old woman, but with malignant transformation two years later. In this paper, we discuss the clinical signs, radiological findings and the therapeutic data on the subject according to literature review.

Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma, Cerebellar, Malignant

Coulibaly, O. , Dama, M. , Diallo, O. , Kisito, Q. , Gu, L. , Sogoba, B. , Denou, M. , Christ, S. , Sogoba, Y. , Diarra, M. , Singuépiré, A. and Kanikomo, D. (2017) Malignant Transformation of Cerebellar Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma: A Case Report. World Journal of Neuroscience, 7, 376-382. doi: 10.4236/wjns.2017.74029.