Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: Report of a case and review of the literature

Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma (DIG) is a rare supratentorial brain tumor occurring mostly before the age of 2 years. It has a good prognosis and total excision of the tumor is curative, necessitating no further treatment. An accurate pathologic diagnosis is crucial. Until now, <60 cases of...

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Autores principales: Geramizadeh, Bita, Kamgarpour, Ahmad, Moradi, Ali
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21042508
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.66669
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author Geramizadeh, Bita
Kamgarpour, Ahmad
Moradi, Ali
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description Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma (DIG) is a rare supratentorial brain tumor occurring mostly before the age of 2 years. It has a good prognosis and total excision of the tumor is curative, necessitating no further treatment. An accurate pathologic diagnosis is crucial. Until now, <60 cases of this tumor type have been reported. Herein, we report a 3-month-old boy with intractable seizure who was found to have DIG after surgery.
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spelling pubmed-29647902010-11-01 Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: Report of a case and review of the literature Geramizadeh, Bita Kamgarpour, Ahmad Moradi, Ali J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma (DIG) is a rare supratentorial brain tumor occurring mostly before the age of 2 years. It has a good prognosis and total excision of the tumor is curative, necessitating no further treatment. An accurate pathologic diagnosis is crucial. Until now, <60 cases of this tumor type have been reported. Herein, we report a 3-month-old boy with intractable seizure who was found to have DIG after surgery. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2964790/ /pubmed/21042508 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.66669 Text en © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: Report of a case and review of the literature
title Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: Report of a case and review of the literature
title_full Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: Report of a case and review of the literature
title_fullStr Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: Report of a case and review of the literature
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title_short Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: Report of a case and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21042508
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.66669
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