[Cerebral neuroblastoma in the adult. Clinical and C.T. scan aspects (author's transl)].

: The case of a thirty two years old patient with a frontal syndrome developing over the last three years is reported. CT scan showed a large calcified lesion, situated on the median line enhanced by iodine. The patient was operated. Ultrastructural and histologie studies concluded that it the tumor was a neuroblastoma. After operation an unquestionable amelioration of the frontal disorders appeared. Facial paralysis with a inverse automatic-voluntary dissociation and an underuse of motricity, both left-sided, after cortectomy of the right-sided premotor area were observed. We therefore suggest that the lesion of the external premotor cortex was responsible of the facial paralysis with an inverse automatic voluntary dissociation and of the underuse the left side.