title: [Central neurocytoma].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgery Dept., Haddash-University Hospital, Jerusalem.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Israel
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ashkenazi
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pappo
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sofer
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Umansky
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001037:Aphasia; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles; D005260:Female; D006429:Hemiplegia; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D018306:Neurocytoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery; D013353:Subdural Effusion