LABORATORY: NEOPLASTIC

DISORDERS OF THE BRAIN,

SPINAL CORD AND PERIPHERAL
NERVES
REBECCA REANTASO-JONSON, MD, FPSP, MMHA
Female 5 years

Several weeks of
unsteadiness, headache and
drowsy. CT scan and MRI
show large mixed density,
patchy cystic midline left
cerebral tumour
Male 31 years

3 weeks history
of headache,
unsteadiness
with visual
disturbance. CT
and MRI scans
show large
cystic left
temporal
tumour, minimal
enhancement.
Small second
right occipital
abnormality.
Male 43 years

MRI: a tumour in the left

temporal lobe, non-
enhancing, ill-defined
margins.
Male 7 years
Posterior cranial fossa
cystic tumour
Male 74 years
History of
slurring of
speech and left
facial weakness.
CT scan: Right
parietal
irregularity
enhancing
isolated tumour
with oedema.
Male 48 years
Frontal mass.
Male 55 years
Left frontal cystic
lesion with
calcification.
Female 42 years
Lobulated well-
circumscribed
tumour in the fourth
ventricle.
Female 30 years
Cystic tumour at the sacral spine.
Female 38 years
Well-circumscribed
tumour in the
temporal lobe.T
Male 1 year
Lethargy, poor feed,
instability and left VI
cranial nerve palsy;
family history of Gorlin
syndrome; MRI:
posterior fossa
tumour with
hydrocephalus.
GFAP
Neuronal Nuclear
Protein (Neu-N)
SYNAPTOPHYSIN
Ki67
Male 20 years
Supra-sellar
tumour
Female 55 years
Left extra axial
mass, well defined
enhancing
Male 50 years
Hearing loss,
tinnitus and
poor balance
Female 4 years
Craniocervical
tumour.