Giant cell tumor of the clivus with presence of epithelioid histiocytes

Giant cell tumor (GCT) is a benign neoplasm but locally aggressive tumor that uncommonly involves the skull bone. We report a case of a 62-year-old male presented with increasing headache and diplopia. Investigations were suggestive of an expanding mass lesion of the clivus. Histopathology was sugge...

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Autores principales: Agrawal, Amit, Gali, Rajsekhar, Shanthi, Vissa, Ramakrishna, Baddukonda Appala, Mohan, Kuppili Venkata Murali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24891892
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.131078
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author Agrawal, Amit
Gali, Rajsekhar
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description Giant cell tumor (GCT) is a benign neoplasm but locally aggressive tumor that uncommonly involves the skull bone. We report a case of a 62-year-old male presented with increasing headache and diplopia. Investigations were suggestive of an expanding mass lesion of the clivus. Histopathology was suggestive of diagnosed with GCT with abundant histiocytes.
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spelling pubmed-40388682014-06-02 Giant cell tumor of the clivus with presence of epithelioid histiocytes Agrawal, Amit Gali, Rajsekhar Shanthi, Vissa Ramakrishna, Baddukonda Appala Mohan, Kuppili Venkata Murali Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Giant cell tumor (GCT) is a benign neoplasm but locally aggressive tumor that uncommonly involves the skull bone. We report a case of a 62-year-old male presented with increasing headache and diplopia. Investigations were suggestive of an expanding mass lesion of the clivus. Histopathology was suggestive of diagnosed with GCT with abundant histiocytes. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4038868/ /pubmed/24891892 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.131078 Text en Copyright: © Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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