Giant-cell ependymoma: Presentation of a case of the sacral region and literature review.

Ultrastruct Pathol

a Anatomic Pathology , Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (INCan) , Mexico City , Mexico.

Published: April 2018

Ependymoma is a rare central nervous system neoplasm with an even rarer morphologic variant called giant-cell ependymoma (GCE). GCE has a characteristic discrepant, malignant-like morphology but indolent behavior. We present the case of a 21-year-old female with an extra-axial GCE located in the sacral region. To date, 16 cases of sacral GCE have been reported in the literature, with 4 cases in the sacral region; however, all those cases were intra-axial. We present the first case of an extra-axial sacral GCE.

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