Preterm delivery in a patient with frontal lobe brain tumor

Abstract

Pregnancy in patient with brain tumors can be intensively monitored by neurosurgeons and obstetricians, and with the use of the symptomatical therapy almost up to the delivery term. Surgical intervention is recommended to be performed during the second and/or third trimester if the condition requires. The way of delivery in these patients should be individually determined in the most appropriate way both for the mother and the newborn, under given circumstances.

Glioma in the third trimester of pregnancy: Two cases and a review of the literature

“…A French study on gliomas reported eight cases between 1992 and 2007; five patients had gliomas prior to pregnancy and three developed gliomas during pregnancy and diffuse gliomas were diagnosed (5). Ducray et al (6) reported four cases of gliomas, Lynch et al (7) five cases and Cutura and Soldo (8) one case. The present study reports two cases of glioma in the third trimester.…”