Primary parenchymal cerebral cystic haemangiopericytoma: a 5-year follow up of disease progression.
Haemangiopericytoma (HPC) is a rare tumour of the central nervous system. Previously, HPCs were thought to originate from meninges and ventricular walls. Currently, they are accepted as distinctive mesenchymal neoplasms unrelated to meningiomas. Imaging appearances, clinical progression and haemorrhage into a cystic tumour is documented in an 18-year-old man where the final diagnosis, with histopathological verification, proved to be a cystic HPC. This interesting and illustrative case is discussed with the relevant literature.
Kuzeyli
Kayhan
K
Department of Neurosurgery, Karadeniz Technical University Medical School, Trabzon, Turkey. k_kuzeyli@hotmail.com
Cakir
Ertuğrul
E
Karaarslan
Gokalp
G
Usul
Haydar
H
Reis
Abdülkadir
A
Baykal
Süleyman
S
Dinç
Hasan
H
Sari
Ahmet
A
D000293:Adolescent; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003560:Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D018450:Disease Progression; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006393:Hemangiopericytoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging