| Title |
An intraventricular meningioma and recurrent astrocytoma collision tumor: a case report and literature review
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|---|---|
| Published in |
World Journal of Surgical Oncology, February 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12957-015-0436-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Duoduo Zhang, Jinlu Yu, Yunbao Guo, Shujie Zhao, Guoguang Shao, Haiyan Huang |
| Abstract |
Intracranial meningioma and glioma collision tumors are relatively uncommon and are even more rarely located within the ventricles. Here, we report a case of a patient with an intraventricular meningioma and astrocytoma collision tumor. A 39-year-old man previously underwent excision of an astrocytoma in the triangle area of the lateral ventricle and exhibited good post-surgery recovery. The astrocytoma recurred in situ six years after the surgery, and the case was complicated by a malignant meningioma. The patient recovered well after surgery to treat the recurrence and was administered radiotherapy after discharge. In addition to reporting on this case, we conducted a literature review of collision tumors; based on this review, we propose several hypotheses regarding the formation of collision tumors. We conclude that a possible cause of the collision tumor formation between the intracranial meningioma and the astrocytoma was the recurrence of an astrocytoma-induced malignancy of the arachnoid cells in the choroid plexus. |
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| Researcher | 6 | 17% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 17% |
| Other | 4 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 9% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 3% |
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