A rare case of teratoma occurring in the fourth ventricle of an elderly adult was reported . Seventeen reported cases of teratoma in the posterior fossa were reviewed with our present case, among which 6 teratomas were found in the fourth ventricle. The differential diagnosis from the other tumors was easy in this case with CT scan.
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