%0 Journal Article
%T Ependimoma mixopapilar: reporte de un caso con reca¨ªdas y remisiones
%A Santiesteban Vel¨¢zquez
%A Norge de Jes¨²s
%A Merayo Llanes
%A Regla Yudit
%J Acta Neurol¨®gica Colombiana
%D 2012
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X myxopapillary ependymomas are considered a biologically and morphologically different variant of ependymomas. the most common clinical manifestations of myxopapillary ependymoma of the cauda equina are pain in the lower back, which may be accompanied by rachialgia and other symptoms of lumbosacral radiculopathy. the propositus was a 59-year-old woman who presented symptoms of progressive weakness and sensory disturbances in lower limbs with relapses and remissions. neuroimaging studies and histological allowed diagnosis of myxopapillary ependymoma, which was presented with atypical form.
%K ependymoma
%K cauda equina
%K myxopapillary ependymoma.
%U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-87482012000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en