Concomitant localization of a myxopapillary ependymoma at the middle thoracic part of the spinal cord and at the distal part of the filum terminale. Case report.

Myxopapillary ependymomas represent the most frequent type of ependymomas found at the conus medullaris-cauda equina-terminal filum level. In this article the authors describe the clinical presentation, radiographic findings, operative details, and pathological features of a patient with a concomitant presentations of a thoracic spinal cord myxopapillary ependymoma and a filum terminale myxopapillary ependymoma. A 16-year-old man presented to the Neurosurgery Department of the S.

Cervical dumbbell ganglioneuroma in an eighteen month old child. A case report.

Dumbbell neurogenic tumors are unusual in children. The authors report an extremely rare case of cervical intraspinal ganglioneuroma with a contiguous paravertebral component in an eighteen month old female patient. Both the intraspinal and the extraspinal parts of the dumbbell tumor were totally removed during the same surgical session.