Tailored therapy: Surgical and radiosurgical treatment for two distinct myxopapillary ependymomas in the same patient. A case report

Edvin Zekaj; Guglielmo Iess; Christian Saleh; Domenico Servello

doi:10.1016/j.jocn.2020.05.004

Tailored therapy: Surgical and radiosurgical treatment for two distinct myxopapillary ependymomas in the same patient. A case report

Edvin Zekaj, Guglielmo Iess, Christian Saleh, Domenico Servello

IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	237-239
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
Volume	77
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2020.05.004
Publication status	Published - Jul 2020

Keywords

Gross surgical resection
Myxopapillary ependymomas
Radiotherapy
Subtotal removal

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Surgery
Neurology
Clinical Neurology
Physiology (medical)

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