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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 aggressive PNETs, can mimic intrinsic brainstem glioma, responds poorly to treatment, and is prone to CNS dissemination at the time of tumor progression.
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PMID:Central nervous system medulloepithelioma: a series of eight cases including two arising in the pons. 860 54

Medulloepithelioma is a clinically uncommon tumor originated from nervous system, often occurred in central nerve system and ciliary body, and malignant medulloepithelioma of the optic nerve is far rarer. So far, there has been no case report in China. It may be clinically misdiagnosed because it resembles glioma at the early stage of the disease. We reported a boy with a tumor in his right eye at age of 3.8 years, which was shown by biopsy of the partial tumor that there were some obviously heteromorphous neoplastic cells, karyokinesis, and moreover, some neoplastic cells differentiated into cartilage cells, gradually formed into hyaline cartilage islands and the expressions of NSE and S-100 were positive. Teratoid malignant medulloepithelioma of optic nerve was made pathologically.
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PMID:[A teratoid malignant medulloepithelioma of the optic nerve]. 1870 63