© 2016 Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery. All rights reserved Myxopapillary ependymoma is a benign slow-growing tumour, arising predominantly in the region of the filum terminale. It has been designated histologically as grade I neoplasm according to the 2007WHO classification (1). Despite this benign character dissemination and metastasis along the cerebrospinal axis and metastasis to distant s...

A case of ependymoma of the cauda equina, presumably originating from the filum terminale in a girl aged 17 at the onset of illness, eventually developed remote metastases in the lungs, pleura, and one para-aortic lymph node. This case is compared with three other previously reported examples. The unusual features in the present instance were (1) the total length of the clinical history, amount...

Background: Paragangliomas (PGLs) are neuroendocrine tumors that arise from the neuroepithelial cell group called paraganglia. Spinal paragangliomas (SPs) are extremely rare, most of which are observed as intradural tumors in the cauda equine, the filum terminale, and the lumbosacral region, but rarely in the thoracic region. We aimed to study the clinical, radiographic and pathologic character...

T appropriate management of adults with filum lipoma (FL) with normal neurological status remains unclear.1,2 Factors such as younger age at presentation, low-lying conus medullaris (CM), thick FL, and the proximity of fat to the CM has not been consistent in the literature in predicting the development of neurological deficits.1-3 The objective of the present study was to evaluate radiological...