Ependimoma Sellar: Reporte de Caso y Revisión de la Literatura

  • Fuenmayor-Duche, Tatiana
  • Ortiz-Ordonez , Andrea
  • Bucheli-Quezada, Paul
  • Quintanilla-González, Chrystin
  • Ayala-Ortiz , Daniel Alejandro
  • Bottani, Laura
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Publication date
June 2021
Publisher
Centro de Investigación ALAC - Asociación Latinoamérica para el Avance de las Ciencias
Language
Spanish; Castilian

Abstract

Ependymoma is a neuroectodermal neoplasm whose main location is infratentorial in children and spinal in adults. Only a few cases of atypical sellar location have been reported and there is no standardized diagnosis or management protocol. A rare case of sellar ependymoma is reported in an adult with cognitive and visual impairment. The clinical suspicion of this entity, as well as the maximum safe surgical resection, may allow an accurate diagnosis and could improve the therapeutic approach. More studies on this topic are needed to assess long-term treatment and over-all survival.El ependimoma es una neoplasia neuroectodérmica cuya localización principal es infratentorial en niños y espinal en adultos. Solo se han informado ...

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