Intracranial plasma cell granuloma: Case report and treatment of recurrence with methotrexate and 6-mercaptopurine

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 599-603

  Shah, Mona D ^a   McClain, Kenneth L ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Inflammatory pseudotumor; Intracranial plasma cell granuloma; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS SINUS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LABORATORY TEST; MASTOIDECTOMY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

6-MERCAPTOPURINE; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN DISEASES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METHOTREXATE; RECURRENCE;

EID: 28144464897     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mph.0000184636.94923.58     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Bahadori M, Liebow AA. Plasma cell granulomas of the lung. Cancer. 1973;31:191-208.
2. Eimoto T, Yanaka M, Kurosawa M, et al. Plasma cell granuloma (inflammatory pseudotumor) of the spinal cord meninges: report of a case. Cancer. 1978;41:1929-1936.
3. West SG, Pittman DL, Coggin JT. Intracranial plasma cell granuloma. Cancer. 1980;46:330-335.
4. Castell C, Morato J, Ferrer I, et al. Granuloma hipotalamico de celulas plasmaticas como causa de panhipopituitarismo. Rev Clin Esp. 1983;170:141-144.
5. Maeda Y, Tani E, Nakamo M, et al. Plasma cell granuloma of the fourth ventricle. J Neurosurg. 1984;60:1291-1296.
6. Cannella DM, Prezyna AP, Kapp JP. Primary intracranial plasma cell granuloma: case report. J Neurosurg. 1988;69:785-788.
7. Gangemi M, Maiuri F, Glamundo A, et al. Intracranial plasma cell granuloma. Neurosurgery. 1989;24:591-595.
8. Ferrer I, Garcia Bach M, Aparicio MA, et al. Plasma cell granuloma of the hypothalamic region. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 1989;99:152-156.
9. Figurella-Branger D, Gambarelli D, Perez-Castillo M, et al. Primary intracerebral plasma cell granuloma: a light immunocytochemical, and ultrastructural study of one case. Neurosurgery. 1990;27:142-147.
10. Gochman GA, Duffy K, Crandall PH, et al. Plasma cell granuloma of the brain. Surg Neurol. 1990;33:347-352.
11. Sitton J, Harkin J, Gerber M. Intracranial inflammatory pseudotumor. Clin Neuropathol. 1992;11:36-40.
12. Chang Y, Horoupian D, Lane B, et al. Inflammatory pseudotumor of the choroid plexus in Sjogren's disease. Neurosurgery. 1991;29:287-290.
13. Hsaing J, Moorhouse D, Barba D. Multiple plasma cell granulomas of the central nervous system: case report. Neurosurgery. 1994;35:744-747.
14. Le Marc'hadour F, Gransen P, Labat-Moleur F, et al. Intracranial plasma cell granuloma: a report of four cases. Surg Neurol. 1994;42:481-488.
15. Makino K, Murakami M, Kitano I, et al. Primary intracranial plasma-cell granuloma: a case report and review of the literature. Pediatr Neurosurg. 1995;43:374-378.
16. Hudson HL, Hinton DR, Friedman DI, et al. Pseudotumor associated with CNS lymphoma. J Neuroophthalmol. 1996;16:208-211.
17. de Jesus O, Inseri JA, Gonzalez A, et al. Idiopathic orbital inflammation with intracranial extension: case report. J Neurosurg. 1996;85:510-513.
18. Yamaki T, Ikeda T, Sakamoto Y, et al. Lymphoplasmacyte-rich meningioma with clinical resemblance to inflammatory pseudotumor: report of two cases. J Neurosurg. 1997;86:898-904.
19. Weidenheim K, Campbell W, Goldman W. Atypical monoclonal plasma cell hyperplasia of the central nervous system: precursor of plasmacytoma with evolutionary considerations. Neurosurgery. 1989;24:429-434.
20. Govender D, Chetty R. Inflammatory pseudotumor and Rosai-Dorfman disease of soft tissue: a histological continuum? J Clin Pathol. 1997;50:79-81.
21. Williams SB, Foss RD, Ellis GL. Inflammatory pseudotumors of the major salivary glands. Clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical analysis of six cases. Am J Surg Pathol. 1992;16:896-902.
22. Horneff G, Jurgens H, Hort W, et al. Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy (Rosai-Dorfman disease): response to methotrexate and mercaptopurine. Med Pediatr Oncol. 1996;27:187-192.