Ebook Management of childhood brain tumors

In children, the central nervous system tumors are exceeded in incidence only by leukemia and are more common than any of the other malignancies of childhood. Childhood central nervous system tumors encompass a range of histologic varieties from the histologically benignappearing pilocytic astrocytoma to the extremely malignant-appearing glioblastoma multiforme and the undifferentiated primitive neuroectodermal tumors. Similarly, the biologic behavior of childhood brain tumors varies not only according to histology but also with location of the tumor and age.