Extremely slow-growing cerebellar ganglioglioma in an elderly patient.
Surg Neurol Int
; 15: 33, 2024.
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ABSTRACT
Background:
Gangliogliomas account for 0.4% of primary brain tumors. They mainly occur in the supratentorial compartment and typically affect only children and young adults. We present an especially rare case of cerebellar ganglioglioma in an elderly patient. Case Description A 76-year-old Japanese woman presented with headache and nausea from 1 month previously. She had been diagnosed with a cerebellar tumor in her childhood, but the lesion was asymptomatic at that time, and there was no evidence of an increase in size, so it had been monitored without surgery. At the time of presentation, she had not been examined for approximately ten years. On admission, magnetic resonance imaging indicated a T2 hypertense cyst in the cerebellar vermis. Post-contrast T1 imaging showed an enhanced mural nodule in the cyst. Cerebral angiography showed that none of the vertebral arteries were significant feeders. The tumor was removed through posterior fossa craniotomy. The histopathological diagnosis was ganglioglioma. The patient's headache and nausea improved after surgery.Conclusion:
Our patient presented a very rare case of extremely slow-growing elderly ganglioglioma in the cerebellum. In patients with gangliogliomas, long-term follow-up is important because the disease may become symptomatic at an older age.
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Surg Neurol Int
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2024
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Japón