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Revista Médica Electrónica

versión On-line ISSN 1684-1824

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SIERRA BENITEZ, Enrique Marcos; HERNANDEZ ROMAN, Greysi; INFANTE PEREZ, Mariela  y  RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, Eglys. Characterization of patients with intracranial ependymoma in the pediatric hospital Juan Manuel Márquez. 2012-2017. Rev.Med.Electrón. [online]. 2020, vol.42, n.3, pp.1826-1838.  Epub 30-Jun-2020. ISSN 1684-1824.

Introduction:

ependymoma are almost 3-5 % of the intracranial tumors and 5-10 % of the brain tumors in pediatric age.

Objective:

to characterize the patients with intracranial ependymoma who underwent surgery in the Pediatric Hospital ¨Juan Manuel Márquez.¨

Materials and method:

retrospective, descriptive study of patients in pediatric age with histological diagnosis of ependymoma of intracranial location in the period January 2012-December 2017. The universe was formed by all patients of pediatric age who underwent surgery with histological diagnosis of intracranial ependymoma in the before-mentioned place and period (N=22).

Results:

the average age was 2.75 years with limits between 1 and 17 years old. Male patients represented 63.64 %; the relation with female sex during the first 4 years was 1:1. Regarding the clinical characteristics, hydrocephaly predominated in 72.73 % of patients. Intracranial ependymoma of infratentorial location (63.64 %) predominated. 45.45 % of the studied lesions corresponded to the histological subtype of anaplastic ependymoma.

Conclusions:

the combination of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy was used in most of the cases. The direct approach of the lesion through craniotomy and a removal adequate to ependymoma location predominated. However, in most of them just the resection of 50-90 % was achieved. The evolution of most of patients after the diagnosis evidenced a tendency to the stability.

Palabras clave : brain tumor; intracranial ependymoma; pediatric.

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