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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mohapatra, Satya S.G.
• Tripathy, Pradipta
• Sahoo, Ranjan K.
• Mohapatra, Debahuti

Titel

Primary neuroendocrine carcinoma of brain radiologically mimicking high grade glioma: A case report and review of literature

Ist Teil von

• Indian journal of neurosurgery, 2013-09, Vol.2 (3), p.288-290

Ort / Verlag

Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract Primary neuro-endocrine carcinoma (NEC) of central nervous system is extremely rare; only one case is reported till date. It mainly involves the dura, frontal lobe and paranasal sinus close to anterior skull base. We report a case of intrinsic brain tumor in left frontal lobe with extension to corpus callosum whose pre-operative MRI diagnosis was high grade glioma. He was operated, intra operative squash and post operative histopathological diagnosis of the tumor came as high grade glioma. However, on immunohistochemical (IHC) study the diagnosis turned out to be primary neuro endocrine carcinoma of brain.