- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Athens Medical School, “Evangelismos” General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- Department of Imaging, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- Department of Pathology, Children’s Hospital “Aghia Sofia”, Athens, Greece
- Department of First Department of Pediatrics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- Department of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital “Aghia Sophia”, Athens, Greece
Correspondence Address:
Dimitrios Giakoumettis
Department of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital “Aghia Sophia”, Athens, Greece
DOI:10.25259/SNI-85-2019
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Abstract
Background:Hemangiopericytoma and solitary fibrous tumor (HPC/SFT) are considered to be one category according to the WHO 2016 classification of central nervous system tumors. HPC/SFT are subdivided into infantile (congenital) and adult type. Both are extremely rare entities, with little knowledge about etiology, prognosis, and optimal therapeutic strategy.
Case Description:A 10-day-old girl was referred to our neurosurgical department due to hypotonia, palsy of the right oculomotor nerve, and prominent frontal fontanel. Imaging studies revealed a large occupying mass in the right middle cerebral fossa and the suprasellar cisterns. Only a subtotal resection of the tumor was possible, and postoperatively, she underwent chemotherapy (CHx). After a 3-year follow-up, the girl has minimum neurologic signs and receives no medications, and she can walk when she is supported.
Conclusion:Congenital HPC/SFT is considered to have a benign behavior with a good prognosis. Treatment with gross total resection, when it is feasible, is the key to a good prognosis and low rates of recurrence. However, there is no consensus on the therapeutic strategy of a HPC/SFT, which is difficult to be completely resected. Literature lacks a therapeutic algorithm for these tumors, and thus, more clinical studies are needed to reach a consensus.
Keywords: Congenital, hemangiopericytoma, intracranial, solitary fibrous tumor
INTRODUCTION
It is known that congenital brain tumors are very rare with an incidence of 1.1–3.6/100,000 newborns.[
CASE REPORT
A 10-day-old girl was referred to our neurosurgical department from the neonatal intensive care unit where it was being treated since her 3rd day after birth due to jaundice. She presented with hypotonia, palsy of the right oculomotor nerve, and prominent frontal fontanel; a cerebral ultrasound and subsequently a computed tomography (CT) scan were performed and revealed a large hyperdense space-occupying mass in the right middle cerebral fossa and the suprasellar cisterns. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated a tumor with marked inhomogeneous enhancement, with mixed cystic and solid components with dimensions of 6.7 cm × 6.2 cm × 6.1 cm [
DISCUSSION
The incidence of congenital tumors is 0.34 per one million births, and infantile HPCs are extremely rare with an incidence of <1% of all CNS tumors.[
In our case, the neoplasm shows morphological heterogeneity and is composed of cellular areas of the short bundles of spindle, stellate, and ovoid cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm and a round nucleus with fine chromatin without nucleolus and with mild-to-moderate nuclear atypia. A moderate-to-brisk mitotic activity of 12–40 mitoses/10 high-power fields (hpf) × 40 and 2–6 mitoses/hpf × 40 was recognized [
Figure 4
(a) Cellular areas of short bundles of spindle cells with an eosinophilic cytoplasm and a round nucleus with fine chromatin without nucleolus and with mild-to-moderate nuclear atypia. (b) Heterogeneous cellular density with cellular heterogeneity and obvious mitoses in a cellular area of the neoplasm. (c) Immunohistochemical expression of CD34 in the neoplastic cells mainly membranous and cytoplasmic. (d) A heterogeneous expression of smooth muscle actin in bundles of spindle cells.
In
CONCLUSIONS
Infantile HPC/SFT is considered to have a benign behavior with a good prognosis. Treatment with GTR is the key to a good prognosis and low rates of recurrence. Nevertheless, GTR is not always feasible. There is no consensus on the therapeutic strategy of a HPC/SFT, which is difficult to be completely resected. CHx before surgery has been proven useful, to make the tumor operable. Moreover, it has been successfully applied as an adjuvant therapy after surgery, or in case of recurrence. RTx has also been used in treating these tumors, but there have been studies that support its ineffectiveness. Literature lacks a therapeutic algorithm for these tumors, and thus, more clinical studies are needed to reach a consensus. In our case, a subtotal resection was performed, which was postoperatively complicated with obstructive hydrocephalus. After a ventriculoperitoneal shunt operation, the patient received CHx.
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