Case Report
Bamboo Leaf Sign as a Sensitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging Finding in Spinal Subependymoma: Case Report and Literature Review
Table 1
Summary of cases of spinal subependymomas reported since 1995.
| | Author, year | Number of reported cases | MRI available cases | Tumor location (MRI available cases) | Bamboo leaf sign |
| | Hoeffel et al., 1995 | 1 | 1 | C1–5 | + | | Tacconi et al., 1996 | 1 | 1 | C6-7 | + | | Jallo et al., 1996 | 6 | 3 | C6-Th1/C4-Th1/C7-Th1 | +/+/− | | Dario et al., 2001 | 1 | 1 | Th9-L1 | + | | Matsumoto and Nakagaki, 2002 | 1 | 1 | Th2–7 | + | | Sarkar et al., 2003 | 1 | 1 | C3–7 | − | | Shimada et al., 2003 | 2 | 1 | Th5–8 | + | | Kremer et al., 2004 | 1 | 1 | Th11-L2 | + | | Fukuzumi et al., 2006 | 1 | 1 | Th3–7 | + | | Yadav et al., 2008 | 1 | 1 | Th5–9 | + | | Jang et al., 2009 | 1 | 1 | Th11-12 | − | | Orakcioglu et al., 2009 | 2 | 2 | Th10-l2/Th11-L1 | +/+ | | Zenmyo et al., 2010 | 1 | 1 | C1-2 | − | | Jabri et al., 2010 | 1 | 1 | Th10-L1 | + | | Yamamoto, 2010 | 4 | 1 | C6-Th5 | + | | Krishnan et al., 2012 | 1 | 1 | C3-Th4 | + | | Iwasaki et al., 2013 | 1 | 1 | Th11-12 | − | | Our case, 2013 | 1 | 1 | Th7–12 | + |
| | Total | 28 | 21 | C: 8 cases/Th: 13 cases | 16 (76.2%) |
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