Brain stem gliomas of children a clinicopathological study

摘要: To determine the risks and benefits of biopsying brain stem gliomas children, authors analyzed clinical histopathological features 27 children with biopsied compared them to 26 that were not biopsied. In both groups, cranial nerve palsies at time diagnosis associated increased mortality. There was no operative mortality low morbidity biopsies, 35% survived 5 years or longer. Children exophytic tumors those who received more than 4000 rad significantly When histologic pleomorphism, nuclear hyperchromatism, mitoses present, they occurred uniformly throughout each biopsy, regardless sample size. Mitoses in biopsy specimen The conclude risk is low, benefit identification should be treated intensively because their poor prognosis.