Neurocytoma arising in an adrenal gland mature teratoma
Safak Ersoz1, Hatice Kucuk, Sevdegul Mungan
1Department of Pathology, Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey. ersozs@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Mature teratoma of adrenal gland is a rare entity. Neurocytoma is a low grade neuronal tumor even rarely seen among central nervous system tumors. Nervous system tumors arising in teratomas are frequently originated from glial or primitive neuroectodermal cells. Here we report a neurocytoma arising in mature cystic teratoma in the right adrenal gland of an 8 years old boy. Histological examination revealed a tumor composed of solid sheets in fibrillar basis with small uniform cells in the neuroglial tissue in teratoma. This is only the second case demonstrating a neurocytoma arising in a mature cystic teratoma in the literature.
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