Hypothalamic glioma masquerading as craniopharyngioma

• Main Authors: Sameer Vyas, Nidhi Prabhakar, Manoj Kumar Tewari, Bishan Dass Radotra, Niranjan Khandelwal
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2013-07-01
• Series: Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice
• Subjects: craniopharyngioma; glioma; hypothalamus
• Online Access: http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/0976-3147.118790

Hypothalamic glioma account for 10-15% of supratentorial tumors in children. They usually present earlier (first 5 years of age) than craniopharyngioma. Hypothalamic glioma poses a diagnostic dilemma with craniopharyngioma and other hypothalamic region tumors, when they present with atypical clinical or imaging patterns. Neuroimaging modalities especially MRI plays a very important role in scrutinizing the lesions in the hypothalamic region. We report a case of a hypothalamic glioma masquerading as a craniopharyngioma on imaging along with brief review of both the tumors.