...Benjamin Gesundheit; Jayadeepa Srinivas Raju; Chaim Y. Brauns; Christine Weisslein; Harald Schmoll; Ronald Ellis; Yehudit Posen; Andreas Schmitz; Hüseyin Sahinbas Introduction: IDH-mutant astrocytomas are high-grade gliomas with a poor prognosis. Transformation to glioblastoma multiforme is common...

... (SPECT) with thallium-201 did not show increased tracer uptake in these lesions, favoring toxoplasmosis over tumor recurrence. The patient was treated with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole with significant improvement. This is a rare account of cerebral toxoplasmosis arising in the setting of astrocytoma...

... the fourth couple in the literature presenting with malignant astrocytomas concurrently. Despite being divorced and living apart for two decades, they presented on the same day, overhearing and recognizing each other’s voice in the emergency room. We include here the molecular characteristics of the tumors...

...Anastasie M. Dunn-Pirio; Elizabeth Howell; Roger E. McLendon; Katherine B. Peters Introduction: Pilomyxoid astrocytoma (PMA) is a rare and more aggressive variant of pilocytic astrocytoma, which usually affects young children and is most often located in the hypothalamic/chiasmatic region...