Cortical Anaplastic Ependymoma with Significant Desmoplasia: A Case Report and Literature Review

Table 1

All of the ectopic anaplastic ependymomas with no connection to the ventricles reported before January 2012.

Series	Sex/age	Location	Clinical presentation	Surgery	Postop. treatment	Recurrence	Outcome	Follow-up
Alexiou et al. [21]	F/10	Rt. Frontal	Headache	GTE	NAT	Cortical	No deficits	6
Davis et al. [19]	F/22	Rt. Frontotemporal	Headache	GTE	Radiotherapy	Metastasis to scalp	No deficits	60
Fukui et al. [13]	M/66	Lt. Posterior fossa	Nerve deficit	GTE	Radiotherapy	Extra-axial cerebellar	No deficits	30
Hamano et al. [11]	M/15	Lt. Parieto-occipital	Headache	GTE	Chemotherapy	Parenchymal with cortical extension	No deficits	12
Kojima et al. [26]	F/56	Lt. Temporal	Seizure	STE	Radiotherapy	Pure cortical	No deficits	5
Kutlay et al. [10]	F/11	Lt. Frontoparietal	Seizure	STE	Radiotherapy	cortical	—
Miyazawa et al. [23]	M/33	Lt. Parietal	Headache	STE	Combined	Extra-axial intratumoral hemorrhage	Mild deficits	10
Moritani et al. [6]	F/50	Rt. Temporal	Headache	STE	Combined	Recurrence in 20 m the exact grading is debatable	—
Ng et al. [27]	F/51	Bifrontal	Incidental	GTE	Radiotherapy	Parenchymal with cortical extension	Handicapped	8
Niazi et al. [15]	F/36	Rt. Frontal	Seizure	GTE	Radiotherapy	Parenchymal with cortical extension	No deficits	29
Niazi et al. [15]	F/18	Rt. Frontoparietal	Seizure	GTE	Radiotherapy	Recurrence	Death	14
Ohla et al. [28]	M/29	Lt. Parietal	Seizure	STE	Radiotherapy	Parenchymal with cortical extension	Death
Park et al. [7]	F/17	Rt. Parafalcine, falx	Seizure	GTE	Radiotherapy	Extra-axial meningioma	Mild deficits	2
Romero et al. [9]	M/23	Lt. Frontal	Seizure	GTE	Radiotherapy	Pure cortical	No deficits	60
Singh et al. [14]	M/35	Lt. Parafalcine, falx	Seizure	GTE	Radiotherapy	Extra-axial meningioma	No deficits	12
Takeshima et al. [8]	F/70	Rt. Frontal	Loss of consciousness	GTE	NAT	Extra-axial intratumoral hemorrhage	Bedridden	36
Thakar et al. [12]	M/12	Brainstem	Headache	Biopsy	Combined	Brainstem	Death	1
Van Gompel et al. [20]	M/12	Rt. Parietal	Seizure	GTE	Radiotherapy	Unusual epileptogenic	No deficits	101
Van Gompel et al. [20]	M/25	Rt. Frontal	Seizure	GTE	Radiotherapy	Unusual epileptogenic	No deficits	80
Van Gompel et al. [20]	M/59	Rt. Frontal	Seizure	GTE	Radiotherapy	Unusual epileptogenic	No deficits	47
Vinchon et al. [22]	M/15	Lt._Insular	Headache	STE	Combined	Recurrence in 3 m	Death	14
Vinchon et al. [22]	M/0.3	Rt. Central	Headache	STE	NAT	Recurrence in 5 m	Death	6
Vinchon et al. [22]	F/13.5	Rt. Temporal	Headache	GTE	Radiotherapy	Recurrence in 8 m	Death	11
Vinchon et al. [22]	M/11.3	Rt. Parietal	Seizure	GTE	Radiotherapy	Recurrence in 20 m	No deficits	80
Present-case	M/25	Rt. Frontal	Seizure	GTE	Radiotherapy	Extra-axial Meningioma	No deficits	6

Lt.: left, Rt.: right, M: male, F: female, GTE: gross total excision, STE: Subtotal excision, NAT: no adjuvant therapy, ND: no deficits.