Rarest of the rare: Chordoid glioma infiltrating the optic chiasm

BACKGROUND: Chordoid glioma is a rare brain tumor typically located within the anterior third ventricle. It is a well-circumscribed, non-infiltrative tumor that grows as a mass within the ventricle. CASE DESCRIPTION: We present the case of a 50-year-old woman with a chordoid glioma located in the an...

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Autores principales: Al Hinai, Qasim S., Petrecca, Kevin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21697970
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2152-7806.80118
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description BACKGROUND: Chordoid glioma is a rare brain tumor typically located within the anterior third ventricle. It is a well-circumscribed, non-infiltrative tumor that grows as a mass within the ventricle. CASE DESCRIPTION: We present the case of a 50-year-old woman with a chordoid glioma located in the anterior third ventricle. Unusually, MRI revealed an enlarged optic chiasm. Histological sampling of the chiasm revealed tumor invasion. CONCLUSION: Involvement of the optic apparatus is generally thought to be an imaging feature that can be used to distinguish chordoid gliomas from optic/hypothalamic gliomas. This case provides the first reported exception to this dogma.
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spelling pubmed-31143682011-06-22 Rarest of the rare: Chordoid glioma infiltrating the optic chiasm Al Hinai, Qasim S. Petrecca, Kevin Surg Neurol Int Case Report BACKGROUND: Chordoid glioma is a rare brain tumor typically located within the anterior third ventricle. It is a well-circumscribed, non-infiltrative tumor that grows as a mass within the ventricle. CASE DESCRIPTION: We present the case of a 50-year-old woman with a chordoid glioma located in the anterior third ventricle. Unusually, MRI revealed an enlarged optic chiasm. Histological sampling of the chiasm revealed tumor invasion. CONCLUSION: Involvement of the optic apparatus is generally thought to be an imaging feature that can be used to distinguish chordoid gliomas from optic/hypothalamic gliomas. This case provides the first reported exception to this dogma. Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2011-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3114368/ /pubmed/21697970 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2152-7806.80118 Text en Copyright: y© 2011 Al Hinai QS. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 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 author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114368/
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