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Nervous System Disorders

= INFUNDIBULOMA = GRANULAR CELL TUMOR

= benign slow-growing low-grade glioma = maldeveloped tissue in an abnormal site [choristos, Greek = separated, apart]

Incidence: rare tumor (70 cases reported in literature)

Origin: pituicyte (= modified astrocyte)

Age: 4th–5th decade; M÷F = 1÷2

Location: along neurohypophysis (sella, suprasellar cistern)

MR:

Prognosis: no invasion, no recurrence