A 35-Year-Old Man Is Brought to the Emergency Department After

A 35-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after experiencing a seizure. According to his girlfriend, he has had fatigue for the last 3 days and became confused this morning, after which he started having uncontrollable convulsions throughout his entire body. He was unconscious throughout the episode, which lasted about 4 minutes. He has not visited a physician for over 10 years. He has smoked one pack of cigarettes daily for 12 years. Imaging of the brain shows a solitary mass within the temporal lobe.  Biopsy of the mass reveals uniform cells containing the Epstein-Barr virus genome.  This patient most likely suffers from which of the following?

A) Pilocytic astrocytoma
B) Glioblastoma
C) Oligodendroglioma
D) Ependymoma
E) Medulloblastoma
F) Primary CNS lymphoma
G) Meningioma
H) Craniopharyngioma
I) Schwannoma
J) Pituitary adenoma

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