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ORPHA:251937

Gangliocytoma

low confidenceDisorder

Publications

1,574

Trials

6

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,178

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

3/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare, mixed neuronal-glial tumor characterized by slow growth and irregular arrangement of neoplastic ganglion cells (large, multipolar dysplastic neurons) within stroma composed of non-neoplastic glial elements. Most commonly it occurs in temporal lobe, but it can be located throughout central nervous system. Clinical manifestations vary depending on the location and include , increased intracranial pressure, cerebellar signs and focal neurologic deficits. Memory disturbances, cranial nerve palsies and psychiatric symptoms have also been reported.

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.

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.”

3/6 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

    1,574 matched papers (796 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    26 HPO annotations (e.g. Impotence; Abnormal brainstem morphology; Scoliosis) Source

  4. Animal modelNot found

    No Alliance genotype “model of” associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs

  5. Orphan designationNot found

    No FDA or EMA orphan-drug designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name Source

  6. Interventional trialPresent

    6 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov (2 recruiting in sample)

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)

26

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0016730

  • Impotence
  • Abnormal brainstem morphology
  • Scoliosis
  • Decreased female libido
  • Ganglioneuroma

Showing 5 of 26 — open Monarch for the full list.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

None returned for this Mondo ID. Empty here is not proof that no model organism work exists under another name or gene.

Monarch fetch 2026-07-29

Therapies

Designations, candidates, and chemicals

FDA OOPD and EMA orphan designations, Open Targets clinical candidates, and CTD chemical associations via MyDisease.info. These never change the interventional-trial headline.

Orphan designation (FDA · EMA)

No designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name on the FDA OOPD mirror or EMA orphan register. Absence here is not proof that none exists under another wording.

Open Targets candidates

No drugs or clinical candidates returned for this Mondo ID on Open Targets.

CTD chemicals (MyDisease.info)

No CTD chemical associations returned for this Mondo ID.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

1,574

1,574 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=3967) is 59.

1,574 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 59 (publications denominator n=3967).

796 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 1,447 · MeSH hits: 137

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,178

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
    Mete O5 papers · 2026

    Department of Pathology, Endocrine Oncology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Li Y4 papers · 2025

    Department of Pathology, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province / The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Asa SL3 papers · 2025

    Department of Pathology, University Hospitals Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Chen W3 papers · 2024

    Department of Radiology, Hainan General Hospital, Hainan Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Chen Y3 papers · 2025

    Department of Pathology, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province / The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Liu L3 papers · 2026

    Health Management Medical Center, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Varlet P3 papers · 2025

    GHU Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Site Sainte-Anne, Service de Neuropathologie, Paris, France.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Wang Y3 papers · 2026

    Department of Neurosurgery, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Zhang Y3 papers · 2024

    Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Akalın T2 papers · 2025

    EGE University School of Medicine Medical pathology, Izmir, Turkey.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

6

interventional trials for this specific condition

6 interventional trials matched this specific condition name; 2 currently recruiting in our sample.

Data as of 11 September 2026

6 interventional trials — more than 77.2% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5501 of 7126; this disease is at the 90.1th percentile).

low confidence · 90.1th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

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

Observational and natural-history studies

3 observational studies match this condition. These do not test a treatment and are not counted in the interventional-trial headline, but they are genuine research: natural-history work often defines the endpoints needed for a future rare-disease trial, and families may be able to enroll.

Recruiting or not-yet-recruiting

Open the complete matched search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Other registries (secondary)

Broader net from EU CTIS, ISRCTN, and ICTRP when available — deduped against ClinicalTrials.gov IDs already counted above. Dual-model LLM relevance gates what we keep. These rows are not added to the interventional headline.

raw 0 · after dedupe 0 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 0 · dropped 0 · fetched 2026-07-30

Source notes: ictrp: Error: ICTRP public search unavailable (WHO portal is SPA-only; SOAP needs partnership). Tried: https://apps.who.int/tri

No secondary-registry studies passed dual-model relevance for this condition name (after dedupe).

Where to find support

Condition-specific patient organisations, when Orphanet lists them, are on the disease’s Orphanet page. We also link umbrella groups that support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families.

Orphanet entry for Gangliocytoma — check Associations / patient organisations on that page.

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.

"Gangliocytoma"

Run this search on Europe PMC

MeSH descriptor terms unioned into the query: Ganglioneuroma

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

"Gangliocytoma" OR "Ganglioneuroma"

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

Study-type breakdown: 6 interventional · 3 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

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

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is short or not clearly distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
  • Publication count (1574) is implausibly high for prevalence class "<1 / 1 000 000" — treat as possible over-matching, not a measure of research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T10:55:47.308Z