Infratentorial Neoplasms - Therapy
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Evolution of neurological impairment in pediatric infratentorial ependymoma patients.

27 Mar 2009 BACKGROUND: Infratentorial ependymoma is a common central nervous system tumor of childhood and in patients >1 year of age is treated with maximally feasible surgical resection and radiotherapy. Because of this tumor typically arises within the 4th ... Read more...

Injuries to inferior vermis and dentate nuclei predict poor neurological and neuropsychological outcome in children with malignant posterior fossa tumors.

13 Mar 2009 BACKGROUND: Children treated for a malignant posterior fossa tumor (PFT) are at risk of intellectual impairment. Its severity is not explained by age and radiotherapy alone. The current study was designed to define the correlations between the ... Read more...

Survivors of pediatric posterior fossa tumors: cognitive outcome, intervention, and risk-based care.

16 Nov 2008 Adolescent and young adult survivors of posterior fossa tumors face a wide variety of functional challenges following treatment. The concept of survival needs to include plans to regularly monitor and effectively respond to those patients considered ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Infratentorial Neoplasms - Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Evolution of neurological impairment in pediatric infratentorial ependymoma patients. 27 Mar 2009
• Injuries to inferior vermis and dentate nuclei predict poor neurological and neuropsychological outcome in children with malignant posterior fossa tumors. 13 Mar 2009
• Brain metastases in hormone refractory prostate cancer: a changing natural history? 27 Feb 2009
• Survivors of pediatric posterior fossa tumors: cognitive outcome, intervention, and risk-based care. 16 Nov 2008
• The clinical experience of medulloblastoma treatment and the significance of time sequence for development of leptomeningeal metastasis. 17 Sep 2008
• Posterior fossa lymphoma with initial vertigo presentation. 6 Aug 2008
• Role of the cerebellum in the neurocognitive sequelae of treatment of tumours of the posterior fossa: an update. 30 May 2008
• Impairment of intellectual functions after surgery and posterior fossa irradiation in children with ependymoma is related to age and neurologic complications. 19 Jan 2008
• [Central vertigo of posterior cranial fossa tumors origin] 30 Dec 2007
• Pediatric infratentorial gangliogliomas: a retrospective series. 29 Sep 2007
• Central nervous system atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor: experience at the National Institute of Pediatrics, Mexico City. 16 Sep 2007
• Treatment for posterior fossa dissemination of primary supratentorial glioma. 30 Mar 2007
• Posterior fossa dermoid cysts causing cerebellar abscesses. 30 Dec 2006
• Outcome of children with posterior fossa medulloblastoma: a single institution experience over the decade 1994-2003. 20 Nov 2006
• Posterior cranial fossa tumors in young adults. 30 Aug 2006
• Intelligence and adaptive function in children diagnosed with brain tumour during infancy. 27 Jun 2006
• Patterns of treatment failure in infants with primitive neuroectodermal tumors who were treated on CCG-921: a phase III combined modality study. 13 Oct 2005
• Critical risk factors for intellectual impairment in children with posterior fossa tumors: the role of cerebellar damage. 30 Oct 2004
• Multivariate analysis of clinical prognostic factors in children with intracranial ependymomas. 29 Jun 2004
• MR spectroscopy in the evaluation of recurrent contrast-enhancing lesions in the posterior fossa after tumor treatment. 21 Apr 2004

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Technical information about 'Infratentorial Neoplasms'

Definition: Intracranial tumors originating in the region of the brain inferior to the tentorium cerebelli, which contains the cerebellum, fourth ventricle, cerebellopontine angle, brain stem, and related structures. Primary tumors of this region are more frequent in children, and may present with ATAXIA; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; vomiting; HEADACHE; HYDROCEPHALUS; or other signs of neurologic dysfunction. Relatively frequent histologic subtypes include TERATOMA; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; ASTROCYTOMA; EPENDYMOMA; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; and choroid plexus papilloma (PAPILLOMA, CHOROID PLEXUS).

Descriptor UI: D015192

Alternative terms: Infratentorial Neoplasms; Posterior Fossa Tumors; Posterior Fossa Tumor; Tumor, Posterior Fossa; Tumors, Posterior Fossa; Posterior Fossa Neoplasms; Neoplasm, Posterior Fossa; Posterior Fossa Neoplasm; Neoplasms, Posterior Fossa; Neoplasms, Infratentorial; Infratentorial Neoplasm; Neoplasm, Infratentorial; Infratentorial Tumors; Infratentorial Tumor; Tumor, Infratentorial; Tumors, Infratentorial; Infratentorial Cancer; Cancer, Infratentorial; Cancers, Infratentorial; Infratentorial Cancers; Malignant Infratentorial Neoplasms; Infratentorial Neoplasms, Malignant; Infratentorial Neoplasm, Malignant; Malignant Infratentorial Neoplasm; Neoplasm, Malignant Infratentorial; Neoplasms, Malignant Infratentorial; Benign Infratentorial Neoplasms; Benign Infratentorial Neoplasm; Infratentorial Neoplasm, Benign; Neoplasm, Benign Infratentorial; Neoplasms, Benign Infratentorial; Infratentorial Neoplasms, Benign;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; blood supply; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; secondary; secretion; surgery; therapy; ultrastructure; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; chemistry; virology;

Tree Number: C04.588.614.250.195.411; C10.228.140.211.500; C10.551.240.250.400;

History Note: 1989

Technical Notes: coord IM with histol type of neopl (IM)