The tanycytic ependymoma of the lateral ventricle: Case report

Authors
Daneyemez, M Can, C Izci, Y Beduk, A Timuckaynak, E
Citation
M. Daneyemez et al., The tanycytic ependymoma of the lateral ventricle: Case report, MIN IN NEUR, 42(4), 1999, pp. 201-203
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Neurology
Journal title
MINIMALLY INVASIVE NEUROSURGERY
ISSN journal
09467211 → ACNP
Volume
42
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
201 - 203
Database
ISI
SICI code
0946-7211(199912)42:4<201:TTEOTL>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
The tanycytic ependymoma is an extremely rare, primitive neuroectodermal tu mor, arising from the ependymoglial cells or tanycytes. Such cells are gene rally seen in the primitive nervous system instead of the mature ependymal cells. The tanycytic ependymoma described in this report was found in a 42- year-old man. Histological analysis strongly suggested that this tumor orig inated from a primitive progenitor cell, the ependymoglia or the tanycyte i n the lateral ventricle.