2025 Proffered Presentations
V075: ANTERIOR TRANSPETROSAL APPROACH FOR RECURRENT PEDIATRIC EPENDYMOMA IN CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE
Jillian Plonsker, MD1; Michael Brandel, MD2; Usman Khan, MD, PhD2; Marc Schwartz, MD2; Rick Friedman, MD, PhD2; Michael Levy, MD, PhD3; 1Lurie Children's Hospital; 2UC San Diego; 3Rady Children's Hospital
This video demonstrates an anterior petrosal approach for a pediatric ependymoma that recurred in the cerebellopontine angle. A 5-year-old male previously underwent a suboccipital craniotomy for a large fourth ventricular ependymoma, followed by chemoradiation. There was subsequently a small recurrence in the cerebellopontine angle for which he was recommended surgery. We elected for a middle fossa transpetrosal approach for a direct extradural trajectory to the lesion and to avoid his prior surgical site.