Anaplastic Ganglioglioma: A Very Rare Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumor
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Abstract
Gangliogliomas (GGs) are a small subset of intramedullary spinal cord tumors in children. The anaplastic variant (WHO grade III) appears to be an extreme rarity. A literature research revealed only 15 case reports of intramedullary anaplastic GGs (aGGs) and only 4 pediatric patients. The course of an 18-month-old boy with sudden onset of paraparesis is presented. Spinal MRI revealed a contrast-enhancing intramedullary tumor ranging from T6 to T12. The patient underwent a standard laminectomy/laminoplasty and gross total resection of the lesion. His neurological status remained unchanged postoperatively and he recovered very well during outpatient neurorehabilitation. Neuropathologic examination revealed an aGG of WHO grade III. Because of the high-grade histology, adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy with temozolomide were administered. The patient subsequently recovered to a normal functional status. Clinical and radiographic progression-free survival is now 4 years. Based on an extensive literature review, this is only the fifth pediatric patient with a primary intramedullary aGG and the second with documented progression-free survival of over 4 years. Another 4 primary intramedullary aGGs in adults and 7 patients with spinal dissemination from a cerebral aGG or malignant transformation of a low-grade GG have been reported. In comparison to the published case reports, which often indicate significant neurological dysfunction and rather short survival, the neurological recovery in this patient was favorable, and the oncologic outcome even more so. This is an argument for the use of the aggressive treatment regimen of complete resection followed by radio- and chemotherapy applied here.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".