Large Subependymoma Inferior to the Cerebellopontine Angle With Significant Obstructive Hydrocephalus: A Case Report on an Extremely Rare Tumor

Subependymomas are rare yet benign tumors that are commonly found within the ventricular system. We describe the case of a 51-year-old male presenting with hydrocephalus and progressive headaches found to have a right cerebellopontine angle (CPA) lesion encasing multiple blood vessels and cranial ne...

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Autores principales: Laghaei Farimani, Pedram, Fatehi, Mostafa, Chaharyn, Bradley M, Akagami, Ryojo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Neurosurgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8584333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34790451
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18686
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author Laghaei Farimani, Pedram
Fatehi, Mostafa
Chaharyn, Bradley M
Akagami, Ryojo
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description Subependymomas are rare yet benign tumors that are commonly found within the ventricular system. We describe the case of a 51-year-old male presenting with hydrocephalus and progressive headaches found to have a right cerebellopontine angle (CPA) lesion encasing multiple blood vessels and cranial nerves (CN). The lesion was resected subtotally via a retrosigmoid approach and was found to be a subependymoma. CPA subependymomas are extremely rare lesions. The neuroimaging and histopathological findings as well as a comprehensive literature review of similar cases are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-85843332021-11-16 Large Subependymoma Inferior to the Cerebellopontine Angle With Significant Obstructive Hydrocephalus: A Case Report on an Extremely Rare Tumor Laghaei Farimani, Pedram Fatehi, Mostafa Chaharyn, Bradley M Akagami, Ryojo Cureus Neurosurgery Subependymomas are rare yet benign tumors that are commonly found within the ventricular system. We describe the case of a 51-year-old male presenting with hydrocephalus and progressive headaches found to have a right cerebellopontine angle (CPA) lesion encasing multiple blood vessels and cranial nerves (CN). The lesion was resected subtotally via a retrosigmoid approach and was found to be a subependymoma. CPA subependymomas are extremely rare lesions. The neuroimaging and histopathological findings as well as a comprehensive literature review of similar cases are discussed. Cureus 2021-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8584333/ /pubmed/34790451 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18686 Text en Copyright © 2021, Laghaei Farimani et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Neurosurgery
Laghaei Farimani, Pedram
Fatehi, Mostafa
Chaharyn, Bradley M
Akagami, Ryojo
Large Subependymoma Inferior to the Cerebellopontine Angle With Significant Obstructive Hydrocephalus: A Case Report on an Extremely Rare Tumor
title Large Subependymoma Inferior to the Cerebellopontine Angle With Significant Obstructive Hydrocephalus: A Case Report on an Extremely Rare Tumor
title_full Large Subependymoma Inferior to the Cerebellopontine Angle With Significant Obstructive Hydrocephalus: A Case Report on an Extremely Rare Tumor
title_fullStr Large Subependymoma Inferior to the Cerebellopontine Angle With Significant Obstructive Hydrocephalus: A Case Report on an Extremely Rare Tumor
title_full_unstemmed Large Subependymoma Inferior to the Cerebellopontine Angle With Significant Obstructive Hydrocephalus: A Case Report on an Extremely Rare Tumor
title_short Large Subependymoma Inferior to the Cerebellopontine Angle With Significant Obstructive Hydrocephalus: A Case Report on an Extremely Rare Tumor
title_sort large subependymoma inferior to the cerebellopontine angle with significant obstructive hydrocephalus: a case report on an extremely rare tumor
topic Neurosurgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8584333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34790451
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18686
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