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Diagnostic Pathology BioMed Central Case Report Open Access Papillary glioneuronal tumor: a new entity awaiting inclusion in WHO classification 1 1 1 2 BD Radotra* , Yashwant Kumar , Alka Bhatia and Sandeep Mohindra Address: 1Department of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India and 2Department of Neurosurgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India Email: BD Radotra* - bishanradotra@; Yashwant Kumar - yashwantk74@; Alka Bhatia - ykabh@; Sandeep Mohindra - satya_sandee@ * Corresponding author Published: 8 February 2007 Received: 19 December 2006 Accepted: 8 February 2007 Diagnostic Pathology 2007, 2:6 doi:10.1186/1746-1596-2-6 This article is available from: /content/2/1/6 © 2007 Radotra et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Papillary glioneuronal tumor (PGNT) is a recently described lesion of the brain, which is still not included as a separate entity in WHO classification. To date 32 cases of PGNT have been reported in the world literature. We report the 33rd case, a 41-year-old male who presented with pain in the nape of the nec