Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
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Myxopapillary ependymoma of the filum terminale and conus medullaris are relatively common spinal intradural neoplasms in adults, only 8-14% affecting children. We describe a case of a 15-year-old girl with two myxopapillary ependymomas of the filum terminale. Although cases of two such tumours have been described in adults, we have not found any similar paediatric cases in the literature.
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This is a report of a 3-year-old boy with intracranial penetration of a nasogastric tube causing brain damage in the left frontal lobe. A computed tomography (CT) showed passage of the nasogastric tube via a fracture of the cribriform plate into the intracranial cavity. The tube was manually removed under antibiotic prophylaxis. The patient then underwent dural repair for rinorrhoea and was discharged in good health.