Sudden Death Due to Massive Intraventricular Hemorrhage into an Unsuspected Ependymoma

Overview

Journal Surg Neurol

Specialty Neurosurgery

Date 1985 Jul 1

PMID 4012563

Citations 8

Authors

T P POON

O G Solis

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Abstract

Intracranial neoplasms may be quiescent asymptomatically while growing insidiously until they impinge on vital structures or, because of their vascularity, lead to massive intracranial hemorrhage. We present such a case in a 4-year-old, previously asymptomatic child, who bled into an ependymoma and died in less than 36 hours.

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