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THE NATURE OF DOUBLE CONCOMITANT MYXOPAPILLARY EPENDYMOMA: REPORT OF A CASE
Salomão, José Francisco Manganelli et al. | Date Issued: 2013
Author
Salomão, José Francisco Manganelli
Andrade, Cecília Vianna de
Rosa Bellas, Antonio
Cervante, Tatiana Protzenko
Affilliation
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher, da Criança e do Adolescente Fernandes Figueira. Departamento de Cirurgia Pediátrica. Seção de Neurocirurgia Pediátrica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher, da Criança e do Adolescente Fernandes Figueira. Departamento de Patologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher, da Criança e do Adolescente Fernandes Figueira. Departamento de Cirurgia Pediátrica. Seção de Neurocirurgia Pediátrica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher, da Criança e do Adolescente Fernandes Figueira. Departamento de Cirurgia Pediátrica. Seção de Neurocirurgia Pediátrica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract
Myxopapillary ependymomas are almost exclusively seen at the conus medullaris/filum terminale/cauda equina region, usually as solitary space-occupying lesions. The authors report the case of a 14-year-old boy with double concomitant myxopapillary ependymoma, proximal and caudal on the filum terminale in which a totally gross removal was achieved in two stages. This presentation is rare and, so far, we have known just three similar cases that were previously reported in children. The true nature of these lesions is controversial, and while some argue that they are related to metastatic seeding, others consider them independent lesions developing synchronously. A review on dissemination of spinal myxopapillary ependymomas was done.
Keywords
Myxopapillary Ependymoma
Spinal Tumor
Dissemination
Drop Metastasis
Filumterminale
 
DeCS
Ependimoma
Traumatismos da Medula Espinal
etástase Neoplásica
 
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Citation
SALOMÃO, José Francisco Manganelli et al. The nature of double concomitant myxopapillary ependymoma: report of a case. Child's Nervous System, Berlin, p. 1-4, Aug. 2013.
DOI
10.1007/s00381-013-2251-0
ISSN
0256-7040