Subependymomas in children: a report of five cases including two with osseous metaplasia
Mallik, M.K.; Babu, N.; Kakkar, N.; Khosla, V.K.; Banerjee, A.K.; Vasishta, R.K.
Neurology India 51(1): 98-99
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-3886 PMID: 12865534 Document Number: 558265
Subependymomas are highly differentiated slow growing gliomas. They are one of the few gliomas which are biologically benign. They are extremely rare in children. However, after going through the histopathology records of our department of fourteen years (1983-1997) we found that five (20%) cases of subependymomas have been diagnosed in children out of a total of twenty-six subependymomas. Two of our cases showed the presence of osseous metaplasia, a hitherto undescribed finding.