CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA

• Benign tumor of the choroid plexus.
• Can occur at any site at which the choroid plexus occurs.
  Usually
• unilateral.
• located in the area of the atrium of the lateral ventricle.

ULTRASOUND

• Large lobulated echogenic mass in the ventricle (1,2).
• Polyhydramnios (3,4).
• Hydrocephalus (either due to overproduction of CSF or obstruction of the ventricular system by the mass) (3,4).

REFERENCES

1. Gradin WC, Taylon C, Fruin AH. Choroid plexus papilloma of the third ventricle: Case report and review of the literature. Neurosurgery 1983;12:217-220.
2. Hawkins JC. Treatment of choroid plexus papilloma in children: A brief analysis of twenty years of experience. Neurosurgery 1980;6:380.
3. Milhorat TH, Hammock MK, Davis DA et.al. Choroid plexus papilloma I. Proof of cerebrospinal fluid overproduction. Childs Brain 1976;2:273-289.
4. Eisenberg HM, McComb JG, Lorenzo AV. Cerebrospinal fluid overproduction and hydrocephalus associated with choroid plexus papilloma. J Neurosurg 1974;40:381-385.