Neurological evaluation of children and adolescents with brain tumor, based on ambulatory-oriented follow-up

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Alexandre Serafim²  Luiz Celso Pereira Vilanova¹  Najla Saba Silva¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de São Paulo Escola Paulista de Medicina São Paulo SP ,Brazil

关键词: infratentorial;    supratentorial;    sequels;    brain tumors;    infratentorial;    supratentorial;    sequelas;    tumores cerebrais;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0004-282X2001000600003

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Taken as proved that brain tumors are the second most frequent childhood neoplasm - only outnumbered by leukemias - we have undertaken a clinical perspective study with seventy brain tumor patients ranging from one to fifteen years of age, throughout a four-year period (1993-1997), based on ambulatory-oriented follow-up. Forty-one male and twenty-nine female patients were analyzed, in that a slightly higher number of infratentorial tumors was observed (thirty-eight cases), compared to those supratentorially located (thirty-two cases). The most repeatedly observed during the study was the medulloblastoma (twenty-one patients), followed by the astrocytoma (fifteen patients) and the germinoma (eleven patients). It should be pointed out that during the ambulatory follow-up 75,5% of patients developed neurological sequels. A tumor recurrence was noticed in 34,3% of them, while 21,4% eventually died.

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