Neurology India Medknow Publications on behalf of the Neurological Society of India ISSN: 0028-3886 EISSN: 1998-4022 Vol. 57, Num. 4, 2009, pp. 517-518

Neurology India, Vol. 57, No. 4, July-August, 2009, pp. 517-518

Correspondence

Author's reply

Yad Ram Yadav, Neha, S. K. Chandrakar¹

Neurosurgery Unit and ¹Department of Pathology, NSCB Medical College, Apex Hospital and Research Centre Jabalpur MP, India.

Correspondence Address: Neurosurgery Unit and Department of Pathology, NSCB Medical College, Apex Hospital and Research Centre Jabalpur MP, India.

Yadavyr@yahoo.co.in

Date of Acceptance: 12-Aug-2009

Code Number: ni09154

DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.55575

To the Editor,

We thank Dr. Bhatoe ^[1] for his keen interest in our article.^[2] The report on brain surface ependymoma in a child by Bhatoe and colleagues ^[3] is quite interesting and very rare. We feel that it is extra-ventricular ependymoma but not a pure cortical ependymoma. The child did not have seizures. The subcortical location of the lesion was evident on magnetic resonance imaging. Extra-ventricular ependymomas could be pure cortical or subcortical (these cases also do not have any connection to the ventricle). Pure cortical lesions are comparatively less aggressive biologically.

References

1.	Bhatoe HS. Pure cortical supratentorial extraventricular ependymoma. Neurol India 2009;57:517  Back to cited text no. 1
2.	Yadav YR, Neha, Chandrakar SK. Pure cortical supratentorial extraventricular ependymoma. Neurol India 2009;57:213-5.   Back to cited text no. 2  [PUBMED]
3.	Bhatoe HS, Dutta V. Brain surface ependymoma in a child. Neurol India 2006;54:321-2  Back to cited text no. 3  [PUBMED]

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