Ependymoma is a rare type of primary brain or spinal cord tumor that can occur in children and adults. Common symptoms of ependymoma include headaches seizures and changes in vision or speech.
You usually have radiotherapy to the whole brain and spinal cord if the ependymoma has spread to the fluid around the brain (cerebrospinal fluid). You might have radiotherapy to just the area of the tumour if there are no tumour cells found in the cerebrospinal fluid.
What is ependymoma? Ependymoma is a very rare type of tumor that starts in the brain or spinal cord. It can happen in both children and adults. Your brain and your spinal cord make up your central nervous system (CNS). Ependymoma is a primary CNS tumor.
Ependymoma is a neuroepithelial tumor with ependymal differentiation that most commonly has ventricular involvement and arises in the cerebrum and spinal cord
Ependymoma that occurs in adults is more likely to form in the spinal cord. It may cause weakness in the part of the body controlled by the nerves affected by the tumor.
An ependymoma is a tumor that arises from the ependyma a tissue of the central nervous system. Usually in pediatric cases the location is intracranial while in adults it is spinal.