title: Single staged complete length excision of the holocord ependymoma: Team work.
abstract: The authors present a case of a 15-year-old male patient who presented with gradually progressive quadriparesis for 3 years. Magnetic resonance imaging of the spine was suggestive of heterogeneously enhancing mass lesion extending from cervicomedullary junction to conus. This holocord spinal tumor was excised in a single stage with standard microsurgical technique. In immediate postoperative period, the patient had deterioration in power in both lower limbs which improved in follow-up at 6 months. Histopathology of the tumor was suggestive of ependymoma. Holocord ependymoma is a rare entity; until now, only six cases have been described in the literature. To the author's best knowledge, this is only the second case of holocord ependymoma excised in a single stage.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Kamlesh S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Bhaisora
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Pradeep
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Arun Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Srivastava
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Anant
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mehrotra
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Kuntal Kanti
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Das
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Jayesh
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sardhara
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Behari
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Jaiswal
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Sahu
keywords: Ependymoma; holocord; intramedullary; myelopathy