A Rare Case of Metastatic Primary Peritoneal Ependymoma: A Case Report and Literature Review

Table 1

Source	Sex/age	Location	Size	Type	Treatment	Nodal metastasis	Distant metastasis	Follow-up	Outcome
Current case	F/23	Peritoneum	10 cm	Ependymoma, NOS	Surgery, etoposide, cyclophosphamide, VIP, TC, thoracic RT	Yes (mediastinal)	Yes (lung, pleura)	10 years (to date)	AWD, partial response
Verdun and Owen [7]	F/75	Peritoneum	14 cm	Ependymoma, NOS	Surgery	No	No	24 years	Local recurrence after 24 years NED
Yamamoto et al. (2015) [21]	F/23	Peritoneum	Unspecified	Ependymoma, NOS	Surgery	No	No	10 months	AWD
Mogler et al. [3]	F/27	Peritoneum	13 cm	Anaplastic ependymoma	Surgery, imatinib, EC	No	No	Unspecified	Unspecified

The table summarizes the details of reported cases of peritoneal ependymoma. VIP: etoposide/ifosfamide/cisplatin; TC: paclitaxel/carboplatin; EC: etoposide/carboplatin; RT: radiotherapy; AWD: alive with disease; NED: no evidence of disease; NOS: not otherwise specified.