Ependymoma of the spinal cord in children and adolescents: a retrospective series from the HIT database.

  • Martin Benesch
  • Daniela Weber-Mzell
  • Nicolas U Gerber
  • Katja von Hoff
  • Frank Deinlein
  • Jürgen Krauss
  • Monika Warmuth-Metz
  • Rolf-Dieter Kortmann
  • Torsten Pietsch
  • Pablo Hernáiz Driever
  • Franz Quehenberger
  • Christian Urban
  • Stefan Rutkowski

Abstract

Reports on spinal cord ependymoma in children are rare. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical spectrum, treatment, and outcome of children with primary ependymoma of the spinal cord who were registered in the database of the pediatric German brain tumor studies Hirntumor (HIT) '91 and HIT 2000.

Bibliografische Daten

OriginalspracheDeutsch
Aufsatznummer2
ISSN1933-0707
StatusVeröffentlicht - 2010
pubmed 20672934