Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma of the Frontal Lobe in a Child: A Rare Entity

Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (PXA) is an infrequent neoplasm that affects children less commonly than adults. In this case report, a four-year-old boy presented with focal seizures has diagnosed with this tumor in the frontal lobe. Complete surgical resection was achieved, and histopathological fea...

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Autores principales: Ferreira Furtado, Leopoldo Mandic, Da Costa Val Filho, José Aloysio, Rodrigues da Costa, Gustavo Alberto, Gouvea Braga, Patrícia Salomé
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8195545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34131549
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15566
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author Ferreira Furtado, Leopoldo Mandic
Da Costa Val Filho, José Aloysio
Rodrigues da Costa, Gustavo Alberto
Gouvea Braga, Patrícia Salomé
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description Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (PXA) is an infrequent neoplasm that affects children less commonly than adults. In this case report, a four-year-old boy presented with focal seizures has diagnosed with this tumor in the frontal lobe. Complete surgical resection was achieved, and histopathological features of PXA grade II were observed. During follow-up, the patient showed improvement of the focal seizures. In spite of the pleomorphic features, the PXA had a favorable prognosis.
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spelling pubmed-81955452021-06-14 Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma of the Frontal Lobe in a Child: A Rare Entity Ferreira Furtado, Leopoldo Mandic Da Costa Val Filho, José Aloysio Rodrigues da Costa, Gustavo Alberto Gouvea Braga, Patrícia Salomé Cureus Pathology Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (PXA) is an infrequent neoplasm that affects children less commonly than adults. In this case report, a four-year-old boy presented with focal seizures has diagnosed with this tumor in the frontal lobe. Complete surgical resection was achieved, and histopathological features of PXA grade II were observed. During follow-up, the patient showed improvement of the focal seizures. In spite of the pleomorphic features, the PXA had a favorable prognosis. Cureus 2021-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8195545/ /pubmed/34131549 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15566 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ferreira Furtado et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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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Ferreira Furtado, Leopoldo Mandic
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Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma of the Frontal Lobe in a Child: A Rare Entity
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title_full Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma of the Frontal Lobe in a Child: A Rare Entity
title_fullStr Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma of the Frontal Lobe in a Child: A Rare Entity
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title_short Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma of the Frontal Lobe in a Child: A Rare Entity
title_sort pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma of the frontal lobe in a child: a rare entity
topic Pathology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8195545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34131549
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15566
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