Central neurocytoma
Israel, Z.; Ashkenazi, E.; Pappo, O.; Sofer, D.; Umansky, F.
Harefuah 129(11): 457-460; 536, 535
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0017-7768 PMID: 8846951 Document Number: 454191
4 cases of central neurocytoma are reported. Sex distribution was symmetrical, average age at presentation was 29.7 years, and duration of symptoms varied from 1 day to 5 years. Headache and nausea were the most frequent symptoms; 1 patient was asymptomatic, 3 tumors were located in the left lateral ventricle and 1 in the third ventricle. 3 were operated on via an interhemispheric transcallosal route and 1 transcortically. Morbidity included symptomatic subdural effusions (2 cases), short term memory deficit (1) and transient hemiparesis with aphasia (1). There was no mortality.