2005
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.45.591
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Anaplastic Ganglioglioma of the Cerebellopontine Angle-Case Report-

Abstract: A 64-year-old woman presented with a rare anaplastic ganglioglioma in the right cerebellopontine angle manifesting as dizziness persisting for 2 weeks. Preoperative magnetic resonance (MR) imaging revealed a partially enhanced cystic lesion of the right cerebellopontine angle. The tumor was subtotally removed through a right lateral suboccipital craniectomy. The tumor was thought to originate from the brain stem with exophytic growth into the right cerebellopontine angle. Histological examination showed neopla… Show more

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“…The incidence and prevalence remains unknown, however, they tend to occur in an older population than their low grade counterparts [12]. In a series of ten cases for which clinical details were available, six patients died of tumour progression within 5-26 months of initial diagnosis, and those with a frontal tumour location had better prognosis [6]. In a series of five cases Majores et al reported a 60% recurrence rate and 53% 5 year survival rate (median follow up 38 months).…”
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“…The incidence and prevalence remains unknown, however, they tend to occur in an older population than their low grade counterparts [12]. In a series of ten cases for which clinical details were available, six patients died of tumour progression within 5-26 months of initial diagnosis, and those with a frontal tumour location had better prognosis [6]. In a series of five cases Majores et al reported a 60% recurrence rate and 53% 5 year survival rate (median follow up 38 months).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In both the above analyses the P value was not consistent with the confidence interval indicating a non-convergence of the statistical model. Interestingly previous isolated case studies reported patients with frontal anaplastic ganglioglioma had no recurrences following surgical resection without radiotherapy [6]. However, in contrast, a study of eight anaplastic gangliogliomas by Karremann et al revealed that tumour location did not affect prognosis [39], however, this was in paediatric cases only.…”
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“…These tumors occur in all age groups, but are most common in the pediatric population [31]. Generally they behave in a benign manner, but a subset of these tumors, with a higher grade glial component, is more aggressive [32]. The treatment of choice is surgical resection, but only complete resection results in long-term, disease-free survival [33] [34].…”
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“…The extent of surgery is related to the prognosis, gross total resection being a predictor of favorable outcome with respect to both LC [3,8] and OS [6,8]. Some authors have stated that cell kinetic studies, such as MIB-1 staining, may be useful for predicting the prognosis [10,29]. …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%