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| Year : 2010 | Volume
: 5
| Issue : 1 | Page : 42-44 |
Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: Report of a case and review of the literature
Bita Geramizadeh1, Ahmad Kamgarpour2, Ali Moradi1
1 Department of Pathology and Transplant Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
2 Department of Surgery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Correspondence Address:
Bita Geramizadeh
Department of Pathology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, P.O. Box: 71345-1864
Iran
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DOI: 10.4103/1817-1745.66669
Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma (DIG) is a rare supratentorial brain tumor occurring mostly before the age of 2 years. It has a good prognosis and total excision of the tumor is curative, necessitating no further treatment. An accurate pathologic diagnosis is crucial. Until now, <60 cases of this tumor type have been reported. Herein, we report a 3-month-old boy with intractable seizure who was found to have DIG after surgery.
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