Open AccessSupratentorial embryonal tumor in adult patient: Case report and literature review
Author(s) -
Juan Esteban Muñoz Montoya,
Paula Santamaria Rodríguez,
Diana Paola Duarte Mora,
Mónica Sofia Benavidez Rojas,
Elsa Jimena Cortes Jaramillo,
Leonardo Andrés Chacón Zambrano
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
asian journal of neurosurgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1793-5482
DOI - 10.4103/ajns.ajns_19_20
Subject(s) - neuroepithelial cell , pathology , medicine , embryonic stem cell , infiltration (hvac) , anatomy , biology , biochemistry , physics , gene , thermodynamics
Embryonal tumors are the new nomenclature of the primitive neuroectodermal tumors or PNET. Their supratentorial location and their manifestation in adult population are not very frequent. Embryonal tumors are conformed from undifferentiated neuroepithelial cells that have the ability to show differentiation to several cell lines. Next is presented a case from an adult male patient with a clinical headache pictures and convulsions. With imaging study that shows a meningeal enhancement with frontal lobe infiltration with histopathological study of embryonic tumor with areas of glial differentiation.