Intracranial pseudolymphoma

J Neurooncol. 2000 Apr;47(2):175-9. doi: 10.1023/a:1006414717891.

Abstract

Intracranial pseudolymphoma is a rare tumor of the central nervous system. A 35-year-old woman presented with a frontal subcutaneous tumor. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a left frontal meningeal tumor involving subcutaneous tissue without bone involvement. The mass was completely removed and the histological aspect of all tumor sections was that of a lymphoid hyperplasia with polyclonal proliferation. These findings were characteristic of pseudolymphoma defined as a hyperplasia of follicular and diffuse lymphoid type with assessment of its polyclonality by immunophenotyping on frozen sections, completed by molecular biology techniques.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Pseudolymphoma / diagnosis*
  • Pseudolymphoma / surgery