Cerebellar ependymoma with overlapping features of clear-cell and tanycytic variants mimicking hemangioblastoma: a case report and literature review

BACKGROUND: Imaging and histology of clear-cell ependymoma and cerebellum-based hemangioblastoma are similar; distinguishing between them is a diagnostic challenge. CASE PRESENTATION: A 62-year-old Chinese woman presented with an intermittent headache of 8 years’ duration. Computed tomography and ma...

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Published in:Diagn Pathol
Main Authors: Zhang, Xiu-Peng, Liu, Yang, Zhang, Di, Zheng, Qin, Wang, Chen, Wang, Liang, Li, Qing-Chang, Qiu, Xue-Shan, Wang, En-Hua
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5359883/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28320419
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-017-0619-2
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