Ependimoma intramedular: Revisão da literatura A propósito de um caso clínico Intramedullary Ependymoma: a revision of the literature following diagnosis of a clinical case

Low back pain is a common complaint in clinical practice. The authors’ presents a 33 year-old man, with a long history of low back pain, with an eventual diagnosis of Intramedular Ependymoma at D9-L1. Ependymoma is a glial tumor and it is the most frequent intramedullary tumour in the adult patient. We must bear in mind that this tumor is one of the possible differential diagnoses when we investigate a complaint of low back pain, especially if associated with neurological signs.