Pediatric incidental brain tumors: A growing treatment dilemma

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 168-174

  Roth, Jonathan ^a   Keating, Robert F ^b   Myseros, John S ^b   Yaun, Amanda L ^b   Magge, Suresh N ^b   Constantini, Shlomi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain surgery; Brain tumor; Children; Glioma; Incidental lesion; Magnetic resonance imaging; Oncology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN STEM INJURY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INFANT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL VENTRICLE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865963163     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.6.PEDS11451     Document Type: Article

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