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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Asian J Neurosurg 2020; 15(03): 733-736
DOI: 10.4103/ajns.AJNS_19_20
Case Report

Supratentorial embryonal tumor in adult patient: Case report and literature review

Juan Munoz Montoya
Departament of Neurosurgery, Hospital Militar Central, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Bogotá
,
Paula Santamaria Rodríguez
1   Departament of Medicine, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá
,
Diana Duarte Mora
Departament of Neurosurgery, Hospital Militar Central, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Bogotá
,
Mónica Benavidez Rojas
2   Departament of Pathology, Hospital Militar Central, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Bogotá
,
Elsa Cortes Jaramillo
2   Departament of Pathology, Hospital Militar Central, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Bogotá
,
Leonardo Chacón Zambrano
Departament of Neurosurgery, Hospital Militar Central, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Bogotá
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Embryonal tumors are the new nomenclature of the primitive neuroectodermal tumors or PNET. Their supratentorial location and their manifestation in adult population are not very frequent. Embryonal tumors are conformed from undifferentiated neuroepithelial cells that have the ability to show differentiation to several cell lines. Next is presented a case from an adult male patient with a clinical headache pictures and convulsions. With imaging study that shows a meningeal enhancement with frontal lobe infiltration with histopathological study of embryonic tumor with areas of glial differentiation.

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Adults - embryonal tumors - supratentorial

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Publication History

Received: 16 January 2020

Accepted: 31 March 2020

Article published online:
16 August 2022

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