Myxopapillary Ependymoma in an 11-Year-Old Patient With Right-Sided Nocturnal Thigh Pain.

This case report highlights a rare type of primary spinal cord tumor, myxopapillary ependymoma, in a pediatric patient who presented to clinic with worsening chronic unilateral thigh pain and neurologic deficits. He was appropriately treated with total gross resection of the tumor and adjuvant radiotherapy and was cleared for competitive sports without any restriction within 1 year of his diagnosis and treatment. Although most musculoskeletal complaints among pediatric patients are of benign etiology, as evidenced by our case, clinicians should have a low threshold to further investigate with advanced imaging modalities should the clinical history and examination be consistent with a more concerning pathologic process. Copyright © 2023 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

Citation

Don Sim, Michael Groswald, Aaron Watters. Myxopapillary Ependymoma in an 11-Year-Old Patient With Right-Sided Nocturnal Thigh Pain. Clinical journal of sport medicine : official journal of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine. 2023 Mar 03

PMID: 36877660

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