Pilocytic Astrocytoma Presenting as an Orbital Encephalocele: A Case Report

We describe the case of a 29-year-old male who presented with new-onset seizures. He was subsequently found to have an orbital encephalocele containing a focus of pilocytic astrocytoma. We believe that this is the first report of a pilocytic astrocytoma located within the orbit that did not originat...

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Autores principales: Bruzek, Amy, Shepherd, Daniel, Van Gompel, Jamie, Jentoft, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2015
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Published online: April, 2015
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26034483
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000381943
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description We describe the case of a 29-year-old male who presented with new-onset seizures. He was subsequently found to have an orbital encephalocele containing a focus of pilocytic astrocytoma. We believe that this is the first report of a pilocytic astrocytoma located within the orbit that did not originate from the optic pathway. It is also the first case of a pilocytic astrocytoma completely contained within an encephalocele. This case suggests a close pathological examination of encephaloceles for underlying diseases.
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spelling pubmed-44480562015-06-01 Pilocytic Astrocytoma Presenting as an Orbital Encephalocele: A Case Report Bruzek, Amy Shepherd, Daniel Van Gompel, Jamie Jentoft, Mark Case Rep Neurol Published online: April, 2015 We describe the case of a 29-year-old male who presented with new-onset seizures. He was subsequently found to have an orbital encephalocele containing a focus of pilocytic astrocytoma. We believe that this is the first report of a pilocytic astrocytoma located within the orbit that did not originate from the optic pathway. It is also the first case of a pilocytic astrocytoma completely contained within an encephalocele. This case suggests a close pathological examination of encephaloceles for underlying diseases. S. Karger AG 2015-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4448056/ /pubmed/26034483 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000381943 Text en Copyright © 2015 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: April, 2015
Bruzek, Amy
Shepherd, Daniel
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Jentoft, Mark
Pilocytic Astrocytoma Presenting as an Orbital Encephalocele: A Case Report
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title_full Pilocytic Astrocytoma Presenting as an Orbital Encephalocele: A Case Report
title_fullStr Pilocytic Astrocytoma Presenting as an Orbital Encephalocele: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Pilocytic Astrocytoma Presenting as an Orbital Encephalocele: A Case Report
title_short Pilocytic Astrocytoma Presenting as an Orbital Encephalocele: A Case Report
title_sort pilocytic astrocytoma presenting as an orbital encephalocele: a case report
topic Published online: April, 2015
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