MULTINODULAR AND VACUOLATING NEURONAL TUMOURS IN EPILEPSY: DYSPLASIA OR NEOPLASIA? Maria Thom1 , Joan Liu1, Anika Bongaarts2, Roy.J. Reinten2, Beatrice Paradiso1,3, Hans Rolf Jäger4, Cheryl Reeves1, Alyma Somani1, Shu An1, Derek Marsdon1, Andrew McEvoy5, Anna Miserocchi5, Lewis Thorne5, Fay Newman6, Sorin Bucur6, Mrinalini Honavar7 , Tom Jacques8, Eleonora Aronica2,9. 1Departments of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy and Neuropathology, UCL Institute of Neurology and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. WCN1BG, UK. 2 Department of (Neuro)Pathology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3Pathology Unit, University of Padua Medical School, Padova, IT. 4Neuroradiological Academic Unit, Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square WC1N 3BG, London 5 Victor Horsley Department of Neurosurgery, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK 6Neurosurgery Department, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, Brighton, UK 7Department of Anatomic Pathology, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal 8Neuropathology Department, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK 9Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (SEIN), The Netherlands Corresponding author: Maria Thom Department of Neuropathology UCL Institute of Neurology Queen Square London WC1N 3BG UK Email:
[email protected] Tel: ++44 20 4388 4233 Accepted Article This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as an ‘Accepted Article’, doi:10.1111/bpa.12555 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Abstract Multinodular and vacuolating neuronal tumour (MVNT) is a new pattern of neuronal tumour included in the recently revised WHO 2016 classification of tumours of the CNS.