We present a case of a 58 year old white male who entered the hospital with abdominal pain and developed large bowel obstruction, simulating malignant disease. Anatomopathological examination showed abdominal actinomycosis, a rare presentation of this disease.

O caso de um menino com esclerose tuberosa, apresentando o quadro clínico típico e que morreu com hemorragia intratumoral maciça, é estudado. A autópsia parcial de crânio revelou hemorragia cerebral maciça à esquerda, no interior da qual se identificou um tumor que, à microscopia, mostrou se tratar de astrocitoma subependimário de células gigantes. Este é o segundo caso, na literatura, no qual um paciente com esclerose tuberosa morre de hemorragia maciça intratumoral, com inundação ventricular.

A case of a 13-years-old boy with tuberous sclerosis manifested with the complete syndrome that died with a massive intratumoral hemorrhage is presented. The post mortem examination of the brain disclosed a massive left parenchymatous brain, hemorrhage with intraventricular component. In the hemorrhage, near the lateral ventricle wall, a subependymal giant cell astrocytoma was found. This is the second case in the literature of tuberous sclerosis which cause of death was an intratumoral massive hemorrhage.