Table 1 Literature review of previous cases of cerebellar ectopia
From: Ectopic cerebellar tissue in the occipital bone: a case report
Authors and year | Age, sex | Location | Symptoms or findings | Accompanied diseases or clinical manifestation | Therapy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Billings and Danziger, 1973 [11] | 9 mos, M | 4th ventricle | Enlargement of head | - | Resection |
Marubayashi & Matsukado, 1978 [13] | 27 d, M | Sphenoid ridge | Enlargement of head | Ectopia of cerebral and brainstem tissue | Resection |
Suneson & Kalimo, 1979 [8] | 21 mos, M | Cervicothoracic spinal cord | Swelling in the cervicothoracic region of the back | Myelocystocele　and spina bifida | Resection and repair |
Call & Baylis, 1980 [5] | At birth, F | Orbit | Proptosis | Suspected orbital meningoencephalocele | Resection |
Sarnat et al., 1982 [7] | At birth, F | In frontal encephalocele | Forehead swelling | Multiple malformations of the CNS | (Autopsy) |
Kagotani et al., 1996 [17] | 2 mos, F | Orbit | Difficulty in right eyelid opening | Asymptomatic Chiari I malformation | Partial resection |
Chung et al., 1998 [6] | 14 mos, M | Cervical spinal cord | Scoliosis | Suspected split-cord malformation | Resection |
Takhtani et al., 2000 [10] | At birth, F | Suprasellar | Optic neuropathy | Nasopharyngeal teratoma, choanal atresia, interhemispheric arachnoid cyst | Partial resection |
Chang et al., 2001 [9] | 4 mos, F | Suprasellar | Optic neuropathy | Nasopharyngeal teratoma | Resection |
Okazaki et al., 2004 [16] | 4 yrs, F | Suprasellar | Asymptomatic | - | Resection |
Matyja et al., 2007 [14] | 25 yrs, F | Anterior cranial fossa | Epilepsy | Hypertelorism, skull deformation | Resection |
Nagaraj et al., 2012 [15] | 5 yrs, M | Posterior cranial fossa | Headache | - | Resection |
Gunbey et al., 2016 [12] | 6 d, M | Posterior cranial fossa | Detected by screening, ultrasound imaging | Large posterior fossa cyst | - |
Present case | 46 yrs, F | Occipital bone | Asymptomatic | - | Resection |