Stereotactic Radiosurgery For Multiple Intracranial EpendymomasKhan Aftab1, Hasan Khajah1, Abbas Ramadan11Gamma Knife Center, Ibn Sina Hospital, Kuwait, Keywords: gamma knife, outcome, ependymoma, radiosurgery, ImagingInteractive Manuscript
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What is the background behind your study?
What is the purpose of your study?
To illustrate a case of multi focal ependymoma treated by Gamma Knife.
Describe your patient group.
A 14 years old girl underwent multiple surgical excisions for the ependymoma in the right fronto-parietal region followed by fractionated radiation therapy and chemotherapy in 1998. Histopathology revealed Anaplastic ependymoma (WHO grade III). Now the patient presented with headaches off and on.
Describe what you did.
MRI brain shows recurrent ependymoma with multiple intraventricular seedlings (6 in number). Radiosurgery was performed using Gamma Knife.
Describe your main findings.
The tumors markedly decrease in size after Gamma Knife Radiosurgery.
Describe the main limitation of this study.
This is a retrospectives study.
Describe your main conclusion.
Stereotactic Radiosurgery is a minimally invasive management strategy which can be used as adjunct treatment after failed surgery, radiation therapy or chemotherapy.
Describe the importance of your findings and how they can be used by others.
Radiosurgery can be also used as the primary treatment modality for the small and inaccessible ependymomas.
To illustrate a case of multi focal ependymoma treated by Gamma Knife.
A 14 years old girl underwent multiple surgical excisions for the ependymoma in the right fronto-parietal region followed by fractionated radiation therapy and chemotherapy in 1998. Histopathology revealed Anaplastic ependymoma (WHO grade III). Now the patient presented with headaches off and on.
MRI brain shows recurrent ependymoma with multiple intraventricular seedlings (6 in number). Radiosurgery was performed using Gamma Knife.
The tumors markedly decrease in size after Gamma Knife Radiosurgery.
This is a retrospectives study.
Stereotactic Radiosurgery is a minimally invasive management strategy which can be used as adjunct treatment after failed surgery, radiation therapy or chemotherapy.
Radiosurgery can be also used as the primary treatment modality for the small and inaccessible ependymomas.
Project Roles:
K. Aftab (), H. Khajah (), A. Ramadan ()
