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| Year : 2003 | Volume
: 51
| Issue : 1 | Page : 98--99 |
Subependymomas in children: A report of five cases including two with osseous metaplasia
MK Mallik1, N Babu1, N Kakkar1, VK Khosla2, AK Banerjee1, RK Vasishta1
1 Department of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh-160012, India
2 Department of Neurosurgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh-160012, India
Correspondence Address:
R K Vasishta
Department of Histopathology, PGIMER, Chandigarh-160012
India
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PMID: 12865534 
Subependymomas are highly differentiated slow growing gliomas. They are one of the few gliomas which are biologically benign. They are extremely rare in children. However, after going through the histopathology records of our department of fourteen years (1983-1997) we found that five (20%) cases of subependymomas have been diagnosed in children out of a total of twenty-six subependymomas. Two of our cases showed the presence of osseous metaplasia, a hitherto undescribed finding.
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