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A papillary glioneuronal tumor arising in an elderly woman: a case report
Choutatsu Tsukayama1, Yoshiki Arakawa
1Department of Pathology, Kurashiki Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Miwa, Kurashiki, Okayama 710-8602, Japan. ct5276@kchnet.or.jp
Brain Tumor Pathology
|November 29, 2002
Abstract:
The papillary glioneuronal tumor (PGNT) was first reported by Komori et al. as a type of mixed neuronal-glial tumor. It is characterized by pseudopapillary structures, composed of hyaline vessels and outsheathing glial cells, and by the proliferation of neurocytic cells admixed with ganglioid and ganglion cells. Although it is most common in young adults, it can occur in the elderly. We report a case in a 75-year-old woman, the oldest reported person with PGNT described.