Abstract:
:Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT), a recently established central nervous system tumor entity, occurs in children and is more malignant than medulloblastoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET). We report here a case of AT/RT in a male infant who was 9 months old at the time of diagnosis. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed that the tumor occupied the fourth ventricle, and at surgery it was found to adhere to the floor of the fourth ventricle. After subtotal removal of the tumor mass, chemotherapy and radiotherapy were performed, but the patient died about 8 months after the diagnosis following rapid regrowth of the residual tumor. Light-microscopically, the tumor was composed mainly of nests of rhabdoid cells with fields of PNET. Occasional mesenchymal and epithelial fields were also evident. Immunohistochemically, these rhabdoid cells were positive for vimentin, epithelial membrane antigen, smooth-muscle actin, cytokeratin, and S-100 protein, and less frequently for glial fibrillary acidic protein. Electron-microscopically, the typical rhabdoid cells contained whorled bundles of intermediate filaments in their cytoplasm. Occasionally, such rhabdoid cells were covered partially by basal lamina at their stromal interface. These findings are typical of AT/RT. Although it is well known that AT/RT often arises in the posterior fossa, detailed reports of cases affecting the fourth ventricle are rare. In this case, the ultrastructural relationship between rhabdoid cells and the basal lamina, which has not so far been described in AT/RT, was of great interest when the nature of the rhabdoid cells was considered.
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Brain Tumor Patholjournal_title
Brain tumor pathologyauthors
Inenaga C,Toyoshima Y,Mori H,Nishiyama K,Tanaka R,Takahashi Hdoi
10.1007/BF02483446keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
2003-01-01 00:00:00pages
47-52issue
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1433-7398issn
1861-387Xjournal_volume
20pub_type
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