Brain tumor
09/26/2012
63-year-old female with right frontal tumor.
- Case Overview
- Diagnosis
Age:
63
Sex:
female
Condition:
Brain tumor.
History:
63-year-old female presented with left gaze deviation and left arm droop followed by tonic-clonic seizure. Imaging workup revealed a T2 bright essentially nonenhancing right frontal and cingulate lesion. Patient underwent right frontal craniotomy for resection of tumor.
Note:
Microscopic examination shows a hypercellular tumor infiltrating gray matter with perineuronal sattelitoses. Neoplastic cells contain scant to abundant cytoplasm (gemistocytes). Nuclei are atypical and hyperchromatic. Mitoses are present.
No necrosis or vascular proliferation.
No necrosis or vascular proliferation.
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Tumor 1 4 201209...
H&E low power
T2
H&E med power
H&E high power
Mitoses H&E high...
Ki-67
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