Cerebellar hemisphere, an uncommon location for pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma and lipidized glioblastoma multiformis

S Kumar; TM Retnam; G Menon; S Nair; RN Bhattacharya; VV Radhakrishnan

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Year : 2003 | Volume : 51 | Issue : 2 | Page : 246--247

Cerebellar hemisphere, an uncommon location for pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma and lipidized glioblastoma multiformis

S Kumar¹, TM Retnam¹, G Menon¹, S Nair¹, RN Bhattacharya¹, VV Radhakrishnan²
¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapurum-695011, India
² Department of Neuropathology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapurum-695011, India

Correspondence Address:
V V Radhakrishnan
Department of Neuropathology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences & Technology. Thiruvananthapurum. Kerala
India

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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PMID: 14571015

Lipidized glioblastoma multiformis (LGB) and pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (PXA) are often supratentorial in location and occur in the second to fourth decade. This report presents two young patients, one having LGB and the other having PXA in the cerebellum. Histological differentiation between LGB and PXA is discussed.

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