Symptomatic subependymoma in a 14-year-old girl, diagnosed by NMR scan.
Symptomatic subependymomas in the pediatric age group are rare. A 14-year-old girl with a IV ventricle subependymoma is described. She had a 2-month history of progressive headache, neck stiffness and nausea. Computed tomography revealed hydrocephalus for which a ventriculoperitoneal shunt was inserted. A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scan later displayed a mass lesion in the roof of the IV ventricle. A suboccipital craniectomy was performed with total excision of a subependymoma.
D000293:Adolescent; D002551:Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005910:Glioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D011859:Radiography