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Cerebellar liponeurocytoma: a case report and
review of the literature
Amina M, Saadia B, Kais N, Hammouda Karim B, Khadija B, Slim H, Moncef Z,
Nidhameddine K
Department of Pathology, Hospital La Rabta, 1007 Bab Saadoun,
Tunis
Cerebellar liponeurocytoma has recently been recognised by the 2000 World Health
Organisation classification of tumours of the central nervous system as a
distinct clinicopathologic entity.
To our knowledge, 18 cases have been reported so far, under different names,
such as "lipomatous medulloblastoma, lipidized medulloblastoma,
neurolipocytoma, medullocytoma and lipomatous glioneurocytoma".
The new classification included cerebellar liponeurocytoma in the category of
glioneuronal tumours grade I or II because of its favourable clinical
behaviour.
The origin and nature of the lipomatous component have been matter of debate and
make this tumour entity puzzling.
We describe a new case of liponeurocytoma removed from the left cerebellar
hemisphere of a 38-year-old-woman.
The patient showed unspecific signs of intracranial hypertension and symptoms
suggesting a posterior fossa lesion.
PMID: 15080526 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15080526
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