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Correo Científico Médico 2017; 21 (3)

Clinical-imaging description of brainstem tumors in the childhood

Rosales LRG, Zaldívar SM, Rosales PLB, Almira GCR, Fernández SB, Rodríguez SMB

Language: Spanish
References: 12
Page: 809-819
PDF size: 342.95 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Introduction: brainstem tumors represents about 10 to 25% of the tumors of the nervous system in the child and 20% to 25% of infratentorial tumors.
Objective: to describe the clinical-imaging findings in patients with brain stem tumors.
Method: a retrospective study was done in children with the diagnosis of brainsteam tumor from the Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja Pediatric Teaching Hospital; Cuba from January 2004 to December 2016.
Results: there was a predominance of females in the age group between 0 – 5 years forl 58.3%. The commonest symptoms occurring at any time were headache (25%) and the patsy of cranial nervous was the neurological signs present at diagnosis. The median symptom interval was two months between onset of symptoms and diagnosis in 81.2% of patients. The diffuse location of the tumor in the brainstem predominated over the focal distribution in 66.6% with epicenter in the encephalic bridge. The therapeutic option of choice was based on radiotherapy, chemotherapy and monoclonal therapy Hr3 in all diffuse brain stem tumors.
Conclusion: magnetic resonance examination is the most suitable imaging technique in the brainsteam` tumors study.


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