We report an 8-year-old boy with a primary subcutaneous sacrococcygeal ependymoma, a rare tumor that is thought to arise in embryologic rests. The lesion was completely removed in our patient, who has been followed without recurrence for 20 months. Our experience, together with that of the other 15
Sacrococcygeal extradural ependymoma
โ Scribed by Anshel Lemberger; Moshe Stein; Jaffa Doron; Geta Fried; Dorith Goldsher; Moshe Feinsod
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 505 KB
- Volume
- 64
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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Ectopic ependymomas are uncommon neoplasms, and most of them occur in [he sacrococcygeal area. They usually present as subcutaneous sacral masses. The most common histological subtype is the myxopapillary. We describe a case of anaplastic sncrococcygeal ependymoma metastatic to the lungs diagnosed b
## Abstract Subcutaneous myxopapillary ependymoma in a sacrococcygeal location is an uncommon lesion. We report such a case in a 16โmoโold female child, who presented with a sacrococcygeal mass since birth. The cytological picture was that of a malignant small round cell tumor and the diagnosis was