Case Report: Unusual High-Grade Diffuse Leptomeningeal Glioneuronal Tumor Mimicking Tuberculous Meningitis in a Child from an Endemic Region

• Main Authors: Yong Guang Teh, Nornazirah Azizan, Nur Atifah Mohd Naim, Chiak, Yot Ng, Ke, Juin Wong, Faizah Mohd Zaki
• Format: Experiment
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: RC254-282 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology Including cancer and carcinogens; RJ1-570 Pediatrics
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32221/1/Unusual%20High-Grade%20Diffuse%20Leptomeningeal%20Glioneuronal%20Tumor%20Mimicking%20Tuberculous%20Meningitis%20in%20a%20Child%20from%20an%20Endemic%20Region.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32221/2/Unusual%20High-Grade%20Diffuse%20Leptomeningeal%20Glioneuronal%20Tumor%20Mimicking%20Tuberculous%20Meningitis%20in%20a%20Child%20from%20an%20Endemic%20Region1.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/32221/; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2021.767614/full

Background: Diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor (DL-GNT) is a new entity described in the 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) classification of brain tumors. While DL-GNT is predominantly an indolent tumor that affects young boys, high-grade DL-GNT is unusual and seldom reported in children.C...