Medical News Summary: A little girl undergoes great suffering due to a misdiagnosis

About: A little girl undergoes great suffering due to a misdiagnosis
Date: 20 September 2004
Source: Reno Gazette-Journal
Author: Sheila Gardner
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by Reno Gazette-Journal): A 31/2 year old girl was misdiagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour – anaplastic astrocytoma. For the next two years she underwent expensive nontoxic cancer treatment and suffered severe side effects such as weight gain and mood swings. The treatment was administered through a catheter in her chest. The girl started to suffer seizures when an attempt was made to withdraw from steroids. She underwent surgery in an attempt to reduce seizures but doctors discovered that the tumour was actually a benign congenital ganglioglioma.
URL: http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/09/20/80868.php?sp1=rgj&sp2=News&sp3=Local+News&sp5=RGJ.com&sp6=news&sp7=local_news
Related Disease Topics: Anaplastic Astrocytoma, Congenital ganglioglioma
Related Symptom Topics: Seizures

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Related Medical News Channels: This medical news summary article refers to the following medical channel categories:

• Misdiagnosis (type of Medical misadventure)
• Misdiagnosis of anaplastic astrocytoma
• Misdiagnosis of congenital gangliglioma
• misdiagnosis of cancer
• Cancer
• misdiagnosis of seizures
• medication and cancer
• Medication and anaplastic astrocytoma
• Brain cancer
• medication and brain cancer

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