Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
A 10 year-old girl with a cerebral hemispheric mass and hydrocephalus.
Clinical information: This patient was a 10 year-old girl with unremarkable birth history and normal development. Her academic performance declined substantially the year before presentation and she also complained of headache. An MRI scan reviewed a large cerebral hemispheric, parenchymal mass that bulged into the ventricle and compressed the foramen of Monro. She also had hydrocephalus that was resulted from the mass. Surgery was performed to remove the mass and yielded the following representative pictures:
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