Cerebellar tumors in children.
All of the available classifications of brain tumors, including that provided by the World Health Organization, fail to take site into consideration when they provide estimates of prognosis. It seems from the preliminary information provided in this report that the common posterior fossa brain tumors frequently occupy extracerebellar sites already at the time of the first hospitalization, and that this information is likely to be helpful in planning further therapy.
D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004806:Ependymoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008527:Medulloblastoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D011379:Prognosis