title: Chondroma located in cerebral parenchyma without meningeal attachment.
abstract: Intracranial chondromas are rare benign tumors, which usually originate from skull base synchondrosis. In rarer cases, intracranial chondromas originate from the cerebral parenchyma without meningeal attachment, which is defined as intracerebral chondroma. In this paper, an 18-year-old male patient with intracerebral chondroma is presented. There are only 5 cases of intracerebral chondromas without meningeal attachment published in the literature. According to the clinical data, the intracerebral chondromas are hard hyaline cartilage, irregular lobulated grayish-white mass macroscopically and consist of mature hyaline chondrocyte microscopically. Total removal is the best treatment method for intracerebral chondroma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Yichao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Xiaohua
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jianwei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ge
authors.forename: Shilei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yongming
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Qiu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D002812:Chondroma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male