Yeungnam Univ J Med.
1997 Dec;14(2):451-458.
A Case of Desmoplastic Infantile Ganglioglioma
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Neurosurgery College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Taegu, Korea.
- 2Department of Pathology College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Taegu, Korea.
Abstract
- The desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma is very rare cerebral tumor. It has been known to be characterized by its voluminious size, intense desmoplasia and the frequent presence of astrocytic and ganglioglionic differentiation. Also, It is usually presented in infantile period and predilected in the frontal and parietal lobes. We treated a huge desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma(8?7?6cm) on the right frontotemporo-parietal area with only gross total resection. It includes solid mass & several cysts and shows the areas of the proliferation of spindle cells exhibiting storiform pattern in dense desmoplastic stroma and the areas composed of spindle shaped glial component.
