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Supratentorial extra-ventricular ependymoma as a mass lesion in a child: report and literature review

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Supratentorial extra-ventricular ependymoma (SEE) are extremely rare in pediatric population and have varied presentation based on size, location, epicentre and compression on neurovascular structure. The authors report a 7-year-old girl presenting with seizure, who had a lobar SEE on MRI scan, successfully treated by microsurgical resection and adjuvant therapy.

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Sivaraman Kumarasamy—Conception & design of work, acquistion, analysis, interpretation of data and drafted the work. Guru Dutta Satyarthee – Analysis, interpretation of data and revised the drafted work.  All authors have approved the submitted version (and any substantially modified version that involves the author's contribution to the study) and agreed both to be personally accountable for the contributions and to ensure that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work.

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Kumarasamy, S., Satyarthee, G.D. Supratentorial extra-ventricular ependymoma as a mass lesion in a child: report and literature review. Childs Nerv Syst 40, 1583–1589 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-023-06250-2

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