Infratentorial Neoplasms
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Family, demographic and illness-related determinants of HRQL in children with brain tumours in the first year after diagnosis.

29 Nov 2009 AIMS: To evaluate the relationship between parent- and child-report Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) and demographic, tumour and family variables in children with a brain tumour in the first year after diagnosis and to identify determinants of ... Read more...

Craniopharyngiomas in the posterior fossa: a rare subgroup, diagnosis, management and outcomes.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Craniopharyngiomas with predominant pars in the posterior fossa are very rare and extremely overlooked. The clinical features, diagnosis and management are different from their sellar/suprasellar counterparts. The purpose of this study ... Read more...

Intraoperative arachnoid and cerebrospinal fluid sampling in children with posterior fossa brain tumors.

29 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to determine whether arachnoid tissue or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sampling is valuable for risk stratification in children with posterior fossa brain tumors. METHODS: Arachnoid tissue and CSF from the cisterna ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Infratentorial Neoplasms'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Family, demographic and illness-related determinants of HRQL in children with brain tumours in the first year after diagnosis. 29 Nov 2009
• Craniopharyngiomas in the posterior fossa: a rare subgroup, diagnosis, management and outcomes. 29 Sep 2009
• Intraoperative arachnoid and cerebrospinal fluid sampling in children with posterior fossa brain tumors. 29 Jun 2009
• Post-traumatic intradiploic leptomeningeal cyst of the posterior fossa in an adult. 22 Jun 2009
• Infratentorial ependymomas: prognostic factors and outcome analysis in a multi-center retrospective series of 106 adult patients. 3 Jun 2009
• The management of hydrocephalus in children with posterior fossa tumours: the role of pre-resectional endoscopic third ventriculostomy. Jun 2009
• Transient selective downward gaze paralysis complicating posterior fossa tumor resection in children. Report of 2 cases. 30 May 2009
• Hypoglossal nerve palsy. 30 May 2009
• Intratentorial osteochondrolipoma in a 9-year-old boy. 29 Apr 2009
• Predicting postresection hydrocephalus in pediatric patients with posterior fossa tumors. 29 Apr 2009
• Brain metastases in patients with pelvic or abdominal malignancy do not prevail in the posterior fossa: a retrospective study. 27 Apr 2009
• Use of spontaneous ventilation to monitor the effects of posterior fossa surgery in the sitting position. 31 Mar 2009
• Do we really need class 1 evidence results to give adjuvant radiation therapy to childhood intracranial ependymomas? 30 Mar 2009
• A 15 year old boy with a posterior fossa tumor. 30 Mar 2009
• Posterior fossa tumor in a 2 year-old girl. 30 Mar 2009
• Posterior fossa tumor in a 12 year-old boy. 30 Mar 2009
• Evolution of neurological impairment in pediatric infratentorial ependymoma patients. 27 Mar 2009
• Acute v pattern esotropia without abduction deficit, secondary to a posterior fossa pilocytic astrocytoma. 18 Mar 2009
• Primary medulla oblongata germinoma--an unusual posterior fossa tumors in young adults. 15 Mar 2009
• Candidate genes on chromosome 9q33-34 involved in the progression of childhood ependymomas. 14 Mar 2009

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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;

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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)