Increased intracranial pressure in a case of spinal cervical glioblastoma multiforme: analysis of these two rare conditions

Hipertensão intracraniana em caso de glioblastoma multiforme da medula cervical: análise dessas duas raras condições

The authors describe a rare case of increased intracranial hypertension consequent to a spinal cervical glioblastoma multiforme in a young patient. They analyse the physiopathology of intracranial hypertension in spinal tumors and the rarity of such kind of tumor in this location, and its clinico-pathological aspects.

intracranial hypertension; spinal glioblastoma multiforme; young patient