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A Protocol for Rapid Post-mortem Cell Culture of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)
Published on: March 7, 2017
Medulloblastoma or cerebellar dysplastic gangliocytoma (Lhermitte-Duclos disease)?
Kuo Shin Chen1, Po Cheng Hung, Huei Shyong Wang
1Division of Pediatric Neurology, Chang Gung Children's Hospital, Medical College of Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Abstract:
Dysplastic cerebellar gangliocytoma is a rare benign tumor associated with specific neuroimaging findings of abnormal laminated or folial pattern in the posterior fossa. Some authors thus proposed that it could be diagnosed by neuroimaging studies alone. We encountered a patient with medulloblastoma in which the neuroimaging findings mimicked those of dysplastic gangliocytoma. In patients with a posterior fossa tumor suggestive of a dysplastic gangliocytoma on neuroimaging studies, a pathologic confirmation is necessary.
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