-Case Reports-

Infantile Cerebellar Pilocytic Astrocytoma with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Koji Adachi, Yasuo Murai and Akira Teramoto

Department of Neurosurgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School
Department of Neurosurgery, Nippon Medical School

The etiology of autism remains unclear, but relationships to cerebellar factors have been reported. We report 2 cases of infantile cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma in children with autism spectrum disorder. Cerebellar tumors may be related to the pathogenesis of autism.

J Nippon Med Sch 2012; 79: 228-231

Keywords
infantile pilocytic astrocytoma, autism, autism spectrum disorder

Correspondence to
Koji Adachi, MD, DMSc, Department of Neurosurgery, Nippon Medical School Musashi Kosugi Hospital, 1-396 Kosugi-cho, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 211-8573, Japan
adachi@nms.ac.jp

Received, October 20, 2011
Accepted, November 9, 2011