How to treat ependymoma?

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Ependymoma is a rare disease, so it is often ignored. It's a slow-growing benign tumor. Ependymoma mainly comes from the central nervous system tumors of ependymal cells in ventricles and central canal of spinal cord. It usually occurs in children and young people. Patients often have nausea, vomiting and headaches. So when the patient has this kind of symptom, we should pay attention to the hospital to check whether they have ependymoma. Once they have this disease, they should be treated in time. So, let's learn how to treat ependymoma.

How to treat ependymoma?

First, the tumor can be completely removed by surgery. This is the first choice for the treatment of ependymoma. Before the operation of intraventricular ependymoma, external ventricular drainage can be placed to reduce intracranial pressure. For the patients who can not get total tumor resection, postoperative radiotherapy should be performed. This treatment is the most reliable.

Second, operation is the main measure to cure subependymoma. With the application of microneurosurgical techniques, there is almost no operative mortality. Because subependymal ependymomas have expansive growth and clear boundary, most of them can be completely removed. This treatment method is safe and reliable.

Third, subtotal resection can also obtain good therapeutic effect for patients with deep tumor growth site and difficult to achieve total tumor resection. Radiotherapy is not used routinely. However, for the patients with pleomorphic changes of tumor nuclei, radiotherapy should be used, which has been used all the time.

matters needing attention

The above describes the treatment of ependymoma, patients should pay attention to cooperate with the treatment, pay attention to reasonable diet, have a good rest, in order to recover faster after treatment. So it's important to relax at ordinary times.