PRIMARY CEREBRAL NEUROBLASTOMA: AN UNUSUAL INTRACRANIAL PNET WITH NEURONAL DIFFERENTIATION.
- Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Era’s Lucknow Medical College & Hospital, Lucknow, U.P. India.
- Junior Resident, Department of Pathology, Era’s Lucknow Medical College & Hospital, Lucknow, U.P. India.
- Professor, Department of Surgery, Era’s Lucknow Medical College & Hospital, Lucknow, U.P. India.
- Professor & Head, Department of Pathology, Era’s Lucknow Medical College & Hospital, Lucknow, U.P. India.
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Primary cerebral neuroblastoma, a primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET), is one of the rare tumors of infants and children.These are a group of undifferentiated tumors with similar histological features that include dense cellularity and immature cells containing scant cytoplasm with hyperchromatic nucleus. PNET group of tumors includes pineoblastoma, ependymoblastoma, medulloblastoma, medulloepithelioma and primary cerebral neuroblastoma. Primary cerebral neuroblastomas are located mostly in the frontal and parietal lobes with a heterogeneous presentation on imaging including areas showing cyst formation, calcification and hemorrhage. We present a rare case of 10-year-old girl diagnosed with primary cerebral neuroblastoma with neonatal and mesenchymal differentiation, an uncommon feature.
[Parul Gupta, Supriya Mehrotra, Apoorva Kumar and A.N. Srivastava. (2016); PRIMARY CEREBRAL NEUROBLASTOMA: AN UNUSUAL INTRACRANIAL PNET WITH NEURONAL DIFFERENTIATION. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 4 (Jun). 230-238] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
