Anaplastic ependymoma of the cerebellum and fourth ventricle with calcification without clear contours and hemorrhages: a case report and literature review Case report

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Published: Jun 30, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24292/01.OR.151190825
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anaplastic ependymoma, posterior cranial fossa, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, adjuvant treatment

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Daniel Encarnación-Santos
Department of Neurosurgery, People of Friendship University, Moscow, Russia
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6484-6775
Gennady Chmutin
1. Department of Neurosurgery, People of Friendship University, Moscow, Russia. 2. Moscow State Budgetary Healthcare Institution, Morozovskaya Children?s City Clinical Hospital of the Moscow City Healthcare Department, Moscow, Russia
Egor Chmutin
Department of Neurosurgery, People of Friendship University, Moscow, Russia
Ismail Bozkurt
1. Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Park Ankara Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. 2. Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Yuksek Ihtisas University, Ankara, Turkey
Bipin Chaurasia
Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Clinic, Birgunj, Nepal

Abstract

First case: A 2-year-old boy was brought to our center via emergency room due to possible periodic headaches that had been developing for 3 months. We noted gait instability, marked ataxia when walking. Brain MRI: diagnosed, which revealed and a space-occupying lesion of the posterior cranial fossa, (PCF). Diagnosis: Tumor mass in the posterior cranial fossa, the presence of changes in the posterior cranial fossa.
Second case: An 8-year-old boy was brought to our center via the emergency room. According to the mother, the child received a head injury and has been experiencing nausea, dizziness, and repeated vomiting accompanied by muscle weakness. MRI, show a mass with calcifications and hemorrhages in the posterior cavity. They were admitted for possible evaluation and management treatment.

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Encarnación-Santos D, Chmutin G, Chmutin E, Bozkurt I, Chaurasia B. Anaplastic ependymoma of the cerebellum and fourth ventricle with calcification without clear contours and hemorrhages: a case report and literature review. OncoReview [Internet]. 2025Jun.30 [cited 2025Nov.21];15(1(57):18-3. Available from: https://journalsmededu.pl/index.php/OncoReview/article/view/3269
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Egor Chmutin, Department of Neurosurgery, People of Friendship University, Moscow, Russia

 

  

Ismail Bozkurt, 1. Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Park Ankara Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. 2. Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Yuksek Ihtisas University, Ankara, Turkey

 

 

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