Gangliocytic paraganglioma of the spine

Paragangliomas are rare, encapsulated, benign neuroendocrine tumors that can arise from the adrenal medulla or extraadrenal paraganglia. Extra-adrenal paragangliomas may develop a gangliocytic component with ganglion cells (Gangliocytic paragangliomas). Nearly 25%of cauda equina paragangliomas are gangliocytic paragangliomas. Here, we describe the case of a 35-year-old male who presented with weakness of both lower limbs over the last two months. Radiological findings were suggestive of myxopapillary ependymoma. However, the histopathological examination revealed a tumor with cells arranged in sheets, papillae, lobules, and around vessels forming pseudo rosettes. Ganglion cells were seen in small groups and, also singly. Tumor cells were immunopositive for chromogranin, synaptophysin, and S-100. Ganglion cells were immunopositive for synaptophysin, NSE, and NFP. A final histological diagnosis of Gangliocytic paraganglioma (WHO grade I) was made. To date, only nine gangliocytic paraganglioma cases have been previously reported, and to the best of our knowledge, this is the largest gangliocytic paraganglioma

Meningioma with metastasis from follicular carcinoma thyroid

A 45-year-old female presented with loss of vision in the left eye, numbness on left half of face and left-sided hemicrania for two months. On the basis of radiological investigations, provisional diagnosis of basal meningioma was made. Tissue sent for histopathological evaluation revealed a dual tumor-meningioma with metastasis from follicular carcinoma, thyroid. To the best of authors′ knowledge, this is the first report of a tumor metastasizing to another tumor, where a follicular carcinoma thyroid metastasized to meningioma

Primary Ewing's Sarcoma of Frontoparietal Bone with Major Soft Tissue Extension: An Unusual Presentation and Review of the Literature

An 11-year-old girl presented with progressively increasing swelling in scalp of 8-month duration with no neurological deficit. Local examination showed a hard swelling that seemed to be arising from frontal bone. General and systemic examination was normal. MRI revealed a well-defined lytic lesion in left frontoparietal bone with a subgaleal component. The patient was operated upon and excision of tumor with reconstruction of skull was done. Histopathological examination showed a monomorphic small round cell tumor of bone infiltrating into the subcutaneous tissue. Immunohistochemical stain showed diffuse immunopositivity for MIC-2 in tumor cells, thus final diagnosis of Ewing’s sarcoma was made. The patient was kept for follow up for 3 months and had no symptoms

Hetero-ligand Binuclear Chelates of Cu(II), Ni(II) & Zn(II) with Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic Acid as the Primary Ligand & Tiron as the Secondary Ligand

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Analyzing agreement patterns of intraoperative central nervous system lesion reporting according to type and grade

Background: Neuropathology centers are expected to offer a prompt and accurate intraoperative diagnosis regarding tumor/lesion type and grade on fresh unfixed tissue. Level of diagnostic accuracy according to type and grade and also, the experience at a new center has not been reported before. Aims: The aim of this study is to review the agreement patterns according to tumor/lesion type and grade between intraoperative and final histopathologic diagnosis in central nervous system (CNS) lesion samples received by a newly established neuropathology center at a tertiary care neuropsychiatric hospital. Materials and Methods: Agreement between intraoperative and final histopathologic diagnosis was classified as: (I) Grade in agreement but type not in agreement; (II) grade not in agreement but type in agreement; (III) grade and type both not in agreement; (IV) grade and type both in agreement. Statistical Analysis: Confidence interval (CI) of agreements was calculated for various categories of neoplastic as well as non-neoplastic lesions. CI was also calculated for groups where n × p and n × (1 − p) were more than 5, i.e., fulfilled the requirement of the central limit theorem. Results: On retrospective analysis of 333 cases, 284 (85.3%) cases were categorized as neoplastic while 49 (14.7%) cases were categorized as non-neoplastic. Among the neoplastic lesions agreement was seen in 237 (83.5%) cases while 47 (16.5%) cases showed disagreement. Similarly in non-neoplastic category; 46 (93.9%) cases showed agreement while 3 (6.15%) cases showed disagreement. Of the non-neoplastic lesions, one case fell into the agreement category I, 2 in category III and 46 in IV. Among neoplastic lesions, there were 21 cases in agreement category I, 17 in II, 9 in III and 237 in IV. On analyzing the accuracy of intraoperative reporting according to tumor type, the break up was: - Astrocytic: 2 (I), 16 (II), 2 (III), 86 (IV); oligodendroglial: 8 (I), 1 (II); ependymal: 2 (III), 6 (IV); embryonal: 23 (IV); cranial and spinal nerve tumors: 2 (II), 21 (IV); choroid plexus tumors: 4 (IV); meningeal tumors: 3 (I), 1 (III), 49 (IV); metastatic tumors: 3 (I), 17 (IV); cysts (tumor-like conditions): 14 (IV); neuronal and mixed neuronal glial tumors: 1 (III); malignant lymphoma: 1 (III); sellar tumors: 17 (IV); and mixed gliomas: 5 (I). Conclusions: This study identifies problem areas of CNS intraoperative reporting, in a new center, with reference to tumor typing and grading. It may forewarn upcoming centers of neuropathology about the potential problem areas of intraoperative reporting

Potentiometric Studies on Binuclear Metal Complexes of 1,2-Diaminocyciohexanetetraacetic Acid & Bidentate Ligands

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