Dysplastic gangliocytoma (Lhermitte-Duclos disease): CT and MR imaging.
Dysplastic gangliocytoma (Lhermitte-Duclos disease) is a rare entity. Usually presenting as a posterior fossa mass, dysplastic gangliocytoma is not a true neoplasm but a hard-to-characterize lesion that may represent an abnormality of cell migration or a phacomatosis. Previous reports of CT findings are rare in the radiologic literature, and high-field (1.5 Tesla) MR images have never been described in the pediatric age group. We present a case of dysplastic gangliocytoma in a one-year-old boy with CT and MR findings.
Vieco
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Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Montreal Neurological Hospital, Quebec, Canada.
del Carpio-O'Donovan
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Melanson
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Montes
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O'Gorman
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Meagher-Villemure
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D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005729:Ganglioneuroma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed