Choroid plexus carcinoma

Choroid plexus carcinoma is a rare and highly aggressive malignant type of choroid plexus tumor (see this term) occurring almost exclusively in children, presenting with cerebrospinal fluid obstruction in the lateral ventricles (most common), the fourth and third ventricles or in multiple ventricles, leading to hydrocephalus and increased intracranial pressure, and manifesting with nausea, vomiting, abnormal eye movements, gait impairment, seizures and enlarged head circumference.

Germinoma

A type of undifferentiated germ cell tumor that may be benign or malignant.


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3863432
MALE Infant
Choroid plexus carcinoma. Report of a case with cytopathologic differential diagnosis.
Kim K, Greenblatt SH, Robinson MG.
Acta Cytol. 1985;29(5):846-9.
The cytologic features of the choroid plexus carcinoma (tight spatial clusters and isolated anaplastic cells with striking nuclear lobulation) were distinct from those of lymphoma, leukemia, neuroblastoma, ependymoma and pineal germinoma.