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Spinal ependymoma in adults: from molecular advances to new treatment perspectives

Frontiers in Oncology, 2023
Ependymomas are rare glial tumors with clinical and biological heterogeneity, categorized into supratentorial ependymoma, posterior fossa ependymoma, and spinal cord ependymoma, according to anatomical localization.
Giulia Cerretti, Federico Pessina, Federico Pessina, Enrico Franceschi, Valeria Barresi, Alessandro Salvalaggio, Alessandro Salvalaggio, Marta Padovan, Renzo Manara, Renzo Manara, Vincenzo Di Nunno, Beatrice Claudia Bono, Beatrice Claudia Bono, Giovanni Librizzi, Mario Caccese, Marta Scorsetti, Marta Maccari, Giuseppe Minniti, Giuseppe Minniti, Pierina Navarria, Giuseppe Lombardi   +20 more
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Pediatric Extraspinal Sacrococcygeal Ependymoma: Report of Two Cases and Literature Review

Diagnostics, 2021
Primary central nervous system (CNS) tumors represent the most common solid tumors in childhood. Ependymomas arise from ependymal cells lining the wall of ventricles or central canal of spinal cord and their occurrence outside the CNS is extremely rare ...
Francesco Fabozzi, Silvia Ceccanti, Antonella Cacchione, Giovanna Stefania Colafati, Andrea Carai, Alessandro Crocoli, Angela Mastronuzzi, Denis A. Cozzi   +7 more
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Surgical management of a rare myxopapillary ependymoma of the gluteal region: A case report. [PDF]

, 2021
BackgroundEpendymomas are rare tumors originating from neuroepithelial cells lining the wall of the ventricles or central canal of the spinal cord. While these tumors mainly occur within the central nervous system (CNS), there are occasional reports in ...
Stitzlein, Russell N, Himstead, Alexander S, Yi Yang, Chen, Guillen, Aileen, Sahyouni, Ronald, Brown, Nolan J, Ball, Benjamin Z, Acharya, Nischal, Lien, Brian V, Perez-Rosendahl, Mari, Hsu, Frank PK   +10 more
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Outcome Analysis in Cases of Spinal Conus Cauda Ependymoma [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Introduction: One half of all central nervous system ependymomas, arise within the spinal canal and about 40% of these arise from filum terminale. The myxopapillary variant of spinal ependymoma almost exclusively occurs in the lumbosacral region and ...
Srikant Balasubramaniam, Devendra K Tyagi, Ketan I Desai, Mohnish P Dighe   +3 more
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Sacrococcygeal myxopapillary ependymoma with anaplastic ependymoma component in an infant

Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences, 2012
Sacrococcygeal location of myxopapillary ependymoma (MPE) is uncommon. Local recurrence and metastases are on record inspite of its benign characteristics.
Shrijeet Chakraborti, Hema Kini, K Ganesh Pai, Vidya Upadhyaya   +3 more
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Reports of a conus cauda tumor with holocord syrinx in an adolescent girl

Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences, 2020
Introduction: Spinal cord ependymoma seldom presents with holocord syringomyelia in pediatric age-group. Association of ependymoma with a lipoma is also rare.
Smriti Sinha, Prathibha Shankar Ashwini, Pelala Nayan Baba, Rathika Damodar Shenoy   +3 more
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Sporadic NF2 Mosaic: Multiple spinal schwannomas presenting with severe, intractable pain following pregnancy

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2017
The aim of the present paper is to report undiagnosed sporadic neurofibromatosis type 2 presenting with symptomatic compressive spinal tumors following pregnancy.
Jeffrey H. Zimering, Bryan D. Choi, Matthew J. Koch, John C. Dewitt, Anat Stemmer-Rachamimov, John H. Shin   +5 more
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Primary spinal primitive neuroectodermal tumor on MR imaging

Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging, 2015
Neoplasms in the region of filum terminale are not uncommon. Myxopapillary ependymoma is the commonest tumor at this location. The differentials reported for this entity are nerve sheath tumor, meningioma, paraganglioma, intradural metastases, lymphoma ...
Prashant J Thoriya, Pankaj Watal, Nandini U Bahri, Ketan Rathod   +3 more
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Non-Hodgkin lymphoma of cauda equina: A diagnostic conundrum: Case report

Advanced Biomedical Research, 2023
Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is uncommon with scarce cases having involvement of the spinal cord. Cauda equina is unique in its location and shows very rare involvement by diseases pathologies.
Pranati Misra, Ranjita Panigrahi, Prita Pradhan, Debashis Pothal, Urmila Senapati, Narendra K Das   +5 more
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Sacral myxopapillary ependymoma with extensive osteolysis

, 2006
Myxopapillary ependymoma rarely presents as a primary intra-sacral lesion and extensive bony destruction is unusual. Radiological features do not help in distinction from other commoner sacral tumors, like chordoma.
Gupta, Ruchika, Sarkar, Chitra, Rishi, Arvind, Sharma, Meher C., Gupta, Aditya, Suri, Vaishali, Garg, Ajay   +6 more
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