Cerebral Astroblastoma: A Rare Tumor

Astroblastoma is a rare neuroepithelial tumor of the central nervous system, which accounts for only 0.45-2.8% of all neuroglial tumors. These tumors have distinct radiological, histopathological, immunohistochemical, and molecular features. We describe a case of astroblastoma of the left temporal l...

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Autores principales: Dey, Biswajit, Dutta, Satya, Saurabh, Animesh, Raphael, Vandana, Khonglah, Yookarin
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/PMC8355865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34395111
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16323
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author Dey, Biswajit
Dutta, Satya
Saurabh, Animesh
Raphael, Vandana
Khonglah, Yookarin
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description Astroblastoma is a rare neuroepithelial tumor of the central nervous system, which accounts for only 0.45-2.8% of all neuroglial tumors. These tumors have distinct radiological, histopathological, immunohistochemical, and molecular features. We describe a case of astroblastoma of the left temporal lobe in a 38-year-old female, who presented with complaints of headache and occasional episodes of vomiting.
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spelling pubmed-83558652021-08-12 Cerebral Astroblastoma: A Rare Tumor Dey, Biswajit Dutta, Satya Saurabh, Animesh Raphael, Vandana Khonglah, Yookarin Cureus Pathology Astroblastoma is a rare neuroepithelial tumor of the central nervous system, which accounts for only 0.45-2.8% of all neuroglial tumors. These tumors have distinct radiological, histopathological, immunohistochemical, and molecular features. We describe a case of astroblastoma of the left temporal lobe in a 38-year-old female, who presented with complaints of headache and occasional episodes of vomiting. Cureus 2021-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8355865/ /pubmed/34395111 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16323 Text en Copyright © 2021, Dey 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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Cerebral Astroblastoma: A Rare Tumor
title Cerebral Astroblastoma: A Rare Tumor
title_full Cerebral Astroblastoma: A Rare Tumor
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8355865/
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