LIPIDIZED MEDULLOBLASTOMA IN ADULTS

被引:42
作者
DAVIS, DG [1 ]
WILSON, D [1 ]
SCHMITZ, M [1 ]
MARKESBERY, WR [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV KENTUCKY,MED CTR,SANDERS BROWN CTR AGING NEUROSURG & NEUROL,LEXINGTON,KY 40536
关键词
CEREBELLUM; LIPIDIZED; MEDULLOBLASTOMA;
D O I
10.1016/0046-8177(93)90113-U
中图分类号
R36 [病理学];
学科分类号
100104 ;
摘要
We describe the clinical, imaging, histologic, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural features as well as the DNA ploidy analysis of two primitive neuroectodermal neoplasms demonstrating prominent cytoplasmic lipid accumulation originating in the posterior fossa of adults. These two tumors most likely exemplify a variant of medulloblastoma with heavily lipidized cells and support the postulated pluripotentiality of primitive neuroectodermal neoplasms. Recognition of this entity as a phenotypic variant of medulloblastoma will militate against diagnostic confusion with other entities that may contain cells with lipoblastic or adipocytic differentiation. © 1993.
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