TITLE:
Cerebellar Liponeurocytoma Mimicking Cerebellopontine Angle Epidermoid Cyst: A Case Report
AUTHORS:
Oumar Coulibaly, Seylan Diawara, Nizar Fatemi, Rachid Gana, Amar Saïdi, Rachid Maaqili, Mohamed Jiddane, Fouad Bellakhdar
KEYWORDS:
Cerebellar Liponeurocytoma, Heterogeneous Tumor, Epidermoid Cyst
JOURNAL NAME:
Case Reports in Clinical Medicine,
Vol.3 No.4,
April
15,
2014
ABSTRACT: Cerebellar
liponeurocytoma (CL) described under many different names, is a rare WHO grade
I or II well differentiated neurocytic tumor of the cerebellum with focal
lipomatous differentiation. Mainly reported in adulthood, it is fought to be a
posterior fossa benign tumor. In this paper, we talk about a 64-year-old woman,
following up for Parkinson’s disease presented in our department for 7 months’
history of headache and gait disturbance. MRI showed a right cerebellopontine
angle (CPA) heterogeneous unlimited tumor mimicking an epidermoid cyst. She
underwent a lateral suboccipital craniectomy procedure that permitted obtaining
the whole gross total resection of this tumor. The histopathological diagnosis was
a cerebellar liponeurocytoma. She was discharged from hospital the 8th day after
surgery and was free of symptoms since 5 years.