TITLE:
Hydrocephalus Secondary to Intraventricular Myxopapillary Ependymoma: Case Report
AUTHORS:
Juan Carlos Ayala-Alvarez, Onyekachi Emmanuel Anyagwa, Fátima Gabriela Macías-Ortiz, Oluwatoyin Adalia Dairo, Courtney Storm Truebody, Reza Badrnejad, Aishwarya Bhuta, Shashwat Sandeep Phade, Srushti Kishor Jamdar, Mostafa Yassin, Vismaja Vijayan
KEYWORDS:
Hydrocephalus, Myxopapillary Ependymoma (MPE), Paediatrics, Neurosurgery, Glioma, Intracranial Hypertension
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Neuroscience,
Vol.14 No.3,
July
24,
2024
ABSTRACT: Ependymomas are a somewhat diverse category of glial tumors that often develop from the lining of the brain’s ventricles, or the spinal cord’s central canal. They make up 5% of all neuroepithelial tumors, 10% of paediatric brain tumors, and up to 33% of brain tumors in children under the age of three. Hydrocephalus is one of the complications, and it can be identified as progressive macrocephaly or increasing head circumference crossing percentiles, nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, irritability, and regression of developmental milestones.