Ganglioglioma

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Ganglioglioma

A ganglioglioma is a rare, slow-growing primary brain tumor that contains both neuronal and glial cells and therefore belongs to the mixed neuronal/glial tumors.

WHO Classification

According to the WHO classification of tumors of the central nervous system, gangliogliomas are classified as WHO Grade 1 or Grade 2.

Epidemiology

Gangliogliomas are the most common tumors found in young patients with chronic temporal lobe epilepsy and are associated with drug-resistant epilepsy1.

Imaging

Ganglioglioma MRI
MRI images in three different sequences (T2, T1, T1 with contrast enhancement) of a patient with a right temporal ganglioglioma, histopathologically confirmed after resection.

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