Abstract
Ependymomas are not frequent in the spinal cord. Although they may arise at every level, most arise in the filum terminale at the level of the cauda equina.
T. Y., a thirty-three-year-old male, was admitted to our clinic with chief complaint of sensory disturbance and weakness of the extremities.
A myelogram showed a block at the level from C-1 to T-3.
On July 22 1976, a laminectomy was done from C-2 to C-7, with partial removal of an intramedullary tumor.
Pathological diagnosis of the tumor was cellular ependymoma.
