Hemorrhagic brain tumors in pediatric patients.
In an unselected pediatric series of 113 newly tissue verified intracranial tumors, intracranial hemorrhage was the initial presentation in 10% of the cases. Review of all cases of subarachnoid hemorrhage admitted to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia during the period of 1976--1979 revealed that intracranial tumors were present in 15%. The largest hemorrhagic pathological group was medulloblastoma-primitive neuroectodermal tumors. No particular age predominance was noted. The high incidence of intracranial tumor hemorrhage in this series of pediatric patients suggests that this may be a more common presentation than previously reported.
D000293:Adolescent; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000601:surgery; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004806:Ependymoma / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008527:Medulloblastoma / Q000601:surgery; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000601:surgery; D009837:Oligodendroglioma / Q000601:surgery; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*