On clinical examination, higher intellectual functions were normal, both pupils were equal and reacting to light, visual acuity/visual fields were normal, fundus–no papilloedema, left lower motor neuron facial paresis, and left-sided sensory neural hearing loss, other cranial nerves normal. No stigmata of neurofibromatosis was noted. A computerised tomography (CT) scan of the brain showed contrast enhancing extra-axial lesion in the left CP angle centered around internal acoustic meatus [Figure 1]. CT bone window did not show enlargement of the internal acoustic meatus or hyperostosis [Figure 1]. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain showed CP angle lesion which was hypointense on T1W and hyperintense on T2W image [Figure 2]. The lesion was brilliantly enhancing with contrast, and no dural tail or canalicular component noticed [Figure 3]. She underwent left retromastoid craniectomy and total excision of the lesion. It was grayish, moderately vascular, and soft. There was a clear plane between the tumor and cerebellum, whereas it was adherent to dura and tent laterally. The HPE was confirmed as desmoplastic medulloblastoma [Figure 4] with the high MIB-1 labeling index and S-100 negativity.
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