Author(s)

Daniel Memia Zolo¹, Abd el Kader Moumouni^1,2,3*, Anabi Daouda Diakhate¹, Dabou Abiba Tamoutabe⁴, Abderrahman Hamlat¹

¹Department of Neurosurgery, CHU Martinique, France.
²Department of Neurosurgery, CHU Kara, Togo.
³Department of Neurosurgery, CHU Sylvanus Olympio Lomé, Togo.
⁴Department of Radiology, HIA Parakou, Benin.

Introduction: Intra-dural and extramedullary ependymomas are rare lesions. We report a clinical case confirmed by the histology supported by the neurosurgery department of Martinique University Hospital. Clinical, paraclinical and therapeutic data will be compared to a literature review. Observation: A 38-year-old patient was admitted for tetraparesthesia evolving since 3 months, associated with a left hemiparesis. The clinical examination revealed deterioration of the general condition and a tetrapyramidal syndrome. MRI of the cervical spine revealed extensive cervical extra-medullary intradural lesion of C3 to C5. The treatment had been an excisional surgery that had been subtotal in two stages, supplemented by craniospinal radiotherapy because the pathological examination had found a grade III anaplasic ependymoma. Conclusion: Because of their rarity, the treatment of these forms of ependymoma is not yet well codified.

Intradural Extramedullary Anaplasic Ependymoma, Surgery, Radiotherapy

Memia Zolo, D. , Moumouni, A. , Diakhate, A. , Tamoutabe, D. and Hamlat, A. (2018) Intradural Extra Medullary Cervical Anaplastic Ependymoma. Case Report and Review of the Literature. Open Journal of Modern Neurosurgery, 8, 414-423. doi: 10.4236/ojmn.2018.84037.