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2005, Number 2

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Arch Neurocien 2005; 10 (2)

Ganglioma with diagnosis of cavernous angioma

Trujillo-Ojeda HM, Silva-Morales F, Ibarra TA, Rivera-Salgado I, Vicuña-González RM, Pasquel-García P

Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 109-112
PDF size: 156.83 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The ganglioglioma, a term that was mint by Courville in 1930 as a transitial neoplasia between glial and not glial cells, has ganglionar cells well differenciated mixed with glial stroma and with astrocites and oligoden-drocites. They are not frecuent and their presentation is in children and young adults with temporal, frontal and parietal localizations. In general the ganglioglioma is considerated as a good prognosis neoplasia with its anaplasic transformation is uncommon. This is the infant variety (desmoplasic) with a poor prognosis. We presented a 10 year old male patient with radiologic diagnostic of the cavernous angioma localized on the left temporal lobe; he had 2 surgeries, the first with a histopatologic cavernous angioma report, and the final with a ganglioglioma report, in this paper we made a review of the literature and a discussion on the prognostic factors.


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