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ORPHA:251863

Desmoplastic/nodular medulloblastoma

low confidenceSubtype of disorder

Publications

631

Trials

1

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,374

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

Desmoplastic/nodular medulloblastoma is a histological variant of medulloblastoma, an embryonic malignancy, often located in one of the cerebellar hemispheres, occurring most frequently in adults and manifesting with symptoms such as vomiting and headache.

How rare: <1 / 1 000 000 — fewer than one in a million. In a city the size of Kolkata, that might mean on the order of fifteen people.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (4)

Desmoplastic medulloblastoma · desmoplastic medulloblastoma · desmoplastic nodular medulloblastoma · desmoplastic/nodular medulloblastoma

Research stages

Trial readiness signals

Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”

2/6 stages with a signal

An interventional trial matched this condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov — see trials below.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    631 matched papers (350 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO

  4. Animal modelNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance

  5. Orphan designationNot checked

    FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet

  6. Interventional trialPresent

    1 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov

Biology

Genes and phenotypes

Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.

Do we know what causes it?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

Not enriched in this build.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

631

631 papers have been published on this condition. That is a real research literature — still far smaller than common diseases (breast cancer: over 700,000 papers). Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.

631 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).

350 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 631 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,374

Distinct author names in 200 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

People publishing on this condition (sampled Europe PMC records). Affiliation is the most recent found in that sample.

  1. 01
    Rutkowski S9 papers · 2025

    Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Bouffet E8 papers · 2025

    The Hospital for Sick Children , Toronto, ON,

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Gajjar A8 papers · 2025

    St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Pietsch T7 papers · 2023

    Institute of Neuropathology, Brain Tumor Reference Center of the Society for Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Dufour C6 papers · 2025

    Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Oncology, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Finlay J6 papers · 2019

    Nationwide Children’s Hospital & The Ohio State University , Columbus, OH,

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Fouladi M6 papers · 2022

    Pediatric Brain Tumor Program, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplant, Nationwide Children's Hospital, 700 Children's Drive, Columbus, OH, 43205, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Grill J6 papers · 2024

    Department of Pediatric Oncology, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, 94805, Villejuif, France.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Wang Y6 papers · 2026

    Center for Experimental Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, P.R. China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Zhang J6 papers · 2025

    Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

1

interventional trials for this specific condition

1 interventional trial matched this specific condition name; none in our sample are currently recruiting. 203 trials are registered for medulloblastoma, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

Data as of 27 July 2026

1 interventional trial — more than 73% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5114 of 7003; this disease is at the 76.8th percentile).

low confidence · 76.8th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

1 interventional trials matched after quoted-phrase search and title/condition post-filter.

No currently recruiting studies in the matched set. Open the same search on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Broader category: medulloblastoma

203

Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.

Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.

Recruiting under the broader category

Where to find support

We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:

India — NPRD

Last verified 2026-07-26

This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.

Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.

How we counted this

Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.

"Desmoplastic/nodular medulloblastoma" OR "Desmoplastic medulloblastoma" OR "desmoplastic nodular medulloblastoma"

Run this search on Europe PMC

ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):

"Desmoplastic/nodular medulloblastoma" OR "Desmoplastic medulloblastoma" OR "desmoplastic nodular medulloblastoma"

Interventional trials matched via: phrase (mesh = registered under a MeSH descriptor no name phrase would catch; recall-expansion = gene / selected parent terms used only for trials).

Study-type breakdown: 1 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"medulloblastoma"

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
  • Publication count (631) is implausibly high for prevalence class "<1 / 1 000 000" — treat as possible over-matching, not a measure of research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T10:53:01.897Z