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  • Title: Ganglioglioma in a patient with Turcot syndrome. Case report.
    Author: Tamiya T, Hamazaki S, Ono Y, Tokunaga K, Matsumoto K, Furuta T, Ohmoto T.
    Journal: J Neurosurg; 2000 Jan; 92(1):170-5. PubMed ID: 10616098.
    Abstract:
    A 33-year-old woman with Turcot syndrome harbored a brain tumor and colon cancer and had a familial history of this syndrome. On histological examination, the brain tumor was found to have large and diffusely scattered ganglion cells within a diffuse background of astrocytic cells in a fibrillary matrix. The tumor was diagnosed as a ganglioglioma. No germline mutation in the adenomatous polyposis coli gene was detected using a protein truncation assay. These findings indicate that this patient had brain tumor-polyposis syndrome Type 1 of Turcot syndrome. This is the first report of a ganglioglioma related to Turcot syndrome.
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