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Intracranial squamous cell carcinoma arising in an epidermoid cyst
N Acciarri1, R Padovani, M P Foschini
1Neurosurgical Division, Bellaria Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
British Journal of Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Intracranial epidermoid cysts are uncommon benign tumors of developmental origin; malignant transformation is extremely rare. We report a case of squamous cell carcinoma arising in a chiasmatic-parasellar epidermoid cyst. Malignant change had not been suspected until histological examination revealed it.