Central nervous system medulloepithelioma: a series of eight cases including two arising in the pons

Journal of Neurosurgery
P T MolloyP C Phillips

Abstract

Medulloepithelioma is an uncommon childhood tumor of the central nervous system (CNS) whose histopathological appearance has been confused with medulloblastoma and other childhood primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNETs), but which has a vastly different clinical course. The authors have reviewed the clinical features and treatment responses of eight children with these rare tumors, the largest series to date. In this series, the medulloepitheliomas were equally distributed between supratentorial and infratentorial primary sites. Four patients underwent gross- or near-total resections, one patient's tumor was partially resected, and one patient had biopsy only. Biopsy and ablative surgery were not attempted in two children with pontine tumors. Treatment included both radiation and chemotherapy (four patients), radiation alone (one patient), chemotherapy alone (one patient), and no post-operative treatment (two patients). Six patients died with a mean survival of 10 months and two are disease free with neurological impairment. Both long-term survivors underwent gross-total resections of their tumors. Postmortem examination revealed diffuse CNS tumor dissemination in four patients. Medulloepithelioma, often confused with less agg...Continue Reading

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