title: Catastrophic hemorrhage as the presenting symptom of an infratentorial ependymoma.
abstract: Children with posterior fossa ependymomas most often have slowly evolving signs and/or symptoms of intracranial hypertension or cerebellar dysfunction. Rarely, however, the tumor can cause a rapidly evolving, disastrous illness.
authors.affiliation: St. Louis University Medical Center, Missouri.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pittman
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Awwad
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004806:Ependymoma / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D015192:Infratentorial Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*