TY - JOUR
T1 - Tailored therapy
T2 - Surgical and radiosurgical treatment for two distinct myxopapillary ependymomas in the same patient. A case report
AU - Zekaj, Edvin
AU - Iess, Guglielmo
AU - Saleh, Christian
AU - Servello, Domenico
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PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - Myxopapillary ependymomas are low grade neoplasms, which originate mostly from the medullary conus, cauda equina and the filum terminale. To date the principal treatment is surgical, total- or subtotal removal (GTR or STR), which can be associated with adjuvant radiotherapy. We report a patient with two tumor locations, one larger tumor at the L3 to S1 level and a smaller S2-S3 localized lesion. The patient was treated successfully with a combined approach of GTR of L3-S1 lesion and radiosurgical treatment of S2-S3 lesion.
AB - Myxopapillary ependymomas are low grade neoplasms, which originate mostly from the medullary conus, cauda equina and the filum terminale. To date the principal treatment is surgical, total- or subtotal removal (GTR or STR), which can be associated with adjuvant radiotherapy. We report a patient with two tumor locations, one larger tumor at the L3 to S1 level and a smaller S2-S3 localized lesion. The patient was treated successfully with a combined approach of GTR of L3-S1 lesion and radiosurgical treatment of S2-S3 lesion.
KW - Gross surgical resection
KW - Myxopapillary ependymomas
KW - Radiotherapy
KW - Subtotal removal
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jocn.2020.05.004
DO - 10.1016/j.jocn.2020.05.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 32446808
AN - SCOPUS:85085044646
VL - 77
SP - 237
EP - 239
JO - Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
JF - Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
SN - 0967-5868
ER -