There are different types: some are non-cancerous (benign) and some are cancerous (malignant), although all tumors inside the skull are dangerous because of compression on the tissue around the brain.

Around 40 new patients with CNS tumors are treated annually at INCA. Ependymomas were divided into supratentorial ependymomas (ST-EPN), posterior fossa ependymomas (PF-EPN), and spinal ependymomas (SP ...

Recently, FGFR4 mutations were reported in 7.5% primary human rhabdomyosarcomas and FGFR3 and FGFR1 expression was analysed in ependymomas and pilocytic astrocytoma and increased FGFR3 and FGFR1 ...

[4] The present study has attempted to evaluate CD99 as a possible specific marker that could selectively differentiate ependymomas from other CNS tumors. Both CD99 and EMA were also evaluated ...

The 38 cases of the ependymal tumors included 29 classic ependymomas, 3 tanycytic, 3 myxopapillary, and 3 anaplastic ependymomas. The 41 nonependymal tumors consist of 6 astrocytomas, 4 central ...