Open AccessAntenatelly detected hypothalamic hamartoma-A case report
Author(s) -
T M Ananda Kesavan,
K K Neethu,
A Rabiya
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
ip indian journal of neurosciences/ip indian journal of neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2581-916X
pISSN - 2581-8236
DOI - 10.18231/j.ijn.2022.017
Subject(s) - hypothalamic hamartoma , asymptomatic , hamartoma , hypothalamus , medicine , pediatrics , brain tumor , pathology , precocious puberty , endocrinology , hormone
Hypothalamic hamartoma (HH) is a non-neoplastic malformationthat appears in the hypothalamus. It is congenital, and it grows as the child’s brain grows, but HH doesn’t spread to other parts of the brain or body. In 95% of cases, it is sporadic in origin. HH present with diverse neurologic, endocrinologic, cognitive, behavioraland psychiatric comorbidities. Irrespective of their large size of this intracranial tumor, some of them may be asymptomatic also. Very rarely they may be detected during routine antenatal checkup.