Catastrophic hemorrhage as the presenting symptom of an infratentorial ependymoma.
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.
Pittman
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St. Louis University Medical Center, Missouri.
Levy
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Awwad
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Martin
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D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004806:Ependymoma / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D015192:Infratentorial Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*