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Cerebellopontine angle ependymoma in a 2-year- old child

The management of cerebellopontine angle (CPA) ependymoma in children below 3 years of age is challenging. In addition to the rare occurrence of disease, the difficulty also lies in achieving gross total resection and providing radiotherapy in this subset of patients. We describe a case of CPA epend...

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Autores principales: Salunke, Pravin, Sharma, Manish, Gupta, Kirti, Kovai, Priyamvadha, Aggarwal, Ashish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22865982
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.98246
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author Salunke, Pravin
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Aggarwal, Ashish
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description The management of cerebellopontine angle (CPA) ependymoma in children below 3 years of age is challenging. In addition to the rare occurrence of disease, the difficulty also lies in achieving gross total resection and providing radiotherapy in this subset of patients. We describe a case of CPA ependymoma in a 2-year-old child. Gross total excision was achieved followed by administration of radiotherapy. In this article, a review of literature for this rare entity and the difficulties faced in the surgery and adjuvant treatment has been discussed.
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spelling pubmed-34100012012-08-03 Cerebellopontine angle ependymoma in a 2-year- old child Salunke, Pravin Sharma, Manish Gupta, Kirti Kovai, Priyamvadha Aggarwal, Ashish J Neurosci Rural Pract Case Report The management of cerebellopontine angle (CPA) ependymoma in children below 3 years of age is challenging. In addition to the rare occurrence of disease, the difficulty also lies in achieving gross total resection and providing radiotherapy in this subset of patients. We describe a case of CPA ependymoma in a 2-year-old child. Gross total excision was achieved followed by administration of radiotherapy. In this article, a review of literature for this rare entity and the difficulties faced in the surgery and adjuvant treatment has been discussed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3410001/ /pubmed/22865982 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.98246 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kovai, Priyamvadha
Aggarwal, Ashish
Cerebellopontine angle ependymoma in a 2-year- old child
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title_full Cerebellopontine angle ependymoma in a 2-year- old child
title_fullStr Cerebellopontine angle ependymoma in a 2-year- old child
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title_short Cerebellopontine angle ependymoma in a 2-year- old child
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410001/
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