ArticleCase reports in oncological medicine2013
Primary isolated lymphoma of the fourth ventricle in an immunocompetent patient.
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- Lymphoma Related to the Ventricular System: A Rare Case Report and Systematic Review of Intraventricular Lymphomas.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Pooled it
- Third ventricle non-Hodgkin lymphoma: An unusual presentation of primary central nervous system lymphoma.BMC neurology · 2026Article
- Multiple primary central nervous system lymphoma in the ventricular system and interpeduncular cistern: A case report.Oncology letters · 2026Article
- Immunocompetent patient with isolated primary fourth ventricle lymphoma. Unusual diagnosis, their pitfalls, and challenges.Surgical neurology international · 2022Article
- Clinical Features, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Primary Intraventricular Lymphoma: Insights From a Monocentric Case Series.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Case report and review of the literature of primary central nervous system lymphoma of the fourth ventricle.Surgical neurology international · 2022Article
- Primary CNS Lymphoma Arising from the 4Case reports in oncological medicine · 2019Article
- Unusual primary central nervous system lymphoma location involving the fourth ventricle and hypothalamus.The neuroradiology journal · 2015Article
- Primary solitary lymphoma of the fourth ventricle.International journal of surgery case reports · 2015Article
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Abstract
Primary central nervous lymphoma (PCNSL) is a rare variant of extranodal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with a especially poor prognosis. The diagnosis is usually encountered in immunodeficient patients but is also encountered, albeit uncommonly, in the immunocompetent. We present a 50-year-old male who developed signs and symptoms of increased intracranial pressure. Imaging revealed the presence of a fourth ventricle mass with obstructive hydrocephalus. First, the patient underwent emergency endoscopic third ventriculostomy followed, few days later, by complete tumor resection via a posterior fossa craniotomy. Postoperative histopathology revealed the lesion to be a PCNSL. He received adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation and remained with no recurrence on regular imaging studies for 18-month followup. We report herein the fourth case of isolated PCNSL lesion to the fourth ventricle in the literature and provide the rationale for our belief that craniotomy and tumor resection, if feasible, should be the initial line of management in similar cases to relieve hydrocephalus and achieve the diagnosis.
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