Neurosurgical treatment of pediatric brain tumors - results from a single center multidisciplinary setup.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The challenge of pediatric brain tumor surgery is given due to a relative low prevalence but high heterogeneity in age, localization, and pathology. Improvements of long-term overall survival rates were achieved during the past decades stressing the importance of a multidisciplinary decision process guided by a national treatment protocol. We reviewed the entire spectrum of pediatric brain tumor surgeries from the perspective of an interdisciplinary pediatric neuro-oncology center in Germany.

Methods

Every patient who underwent brain tumor surgery from January 2010 to June 2017 in our Pediatric Neurosurgery department was retrospectively included and evaluated regarding the course of treatment. Perioperative data such as tumor localization, timing of surgery, exten

SUBMITTER: Schaumann A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10837233 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature