Sir, Central neurocytomas are rare tumors of the central nervous system described first by Hassoun in 1982. We present a rare distant extraventricular recurrence in a patient with an intraventricular neurocytoma.A 50-year-old male presented with features of raised intracranial pressure and cognitive decline of four months' duration. Examination revealed impaired attention span and papilledema. Contrast computed tomography (CECT) scan of brain [Figure 1]a and b revealed a large intraventricular uniformly enhancing mass predominantly in the right lateral ventricle with a septal attachment. There was significant dilatation of both lateral ventricles. The patient underwent ventriculoperitoneal shunt followed by a right frontoparietal parasagittal craniotomy, interhemispheric transcallosal approach and total excision of the tumor. Histopathological examination of the tumor revealed typical pattern of a central neurocytoma, with a bland histology with sheets of neurocytoma cells and no evidence of hypercellularity or mitosis.
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