The clinical and surgical aspects of spinal tumors in children.
A series of 20 pediatric patients underwent surgery for spinal tumor at the Department of Neurosurgery, Gulhane Military Medical Academy between 1995 and 2003. Motor weakness and reflex changes were the main initial signs in these patients. Epidural tumors and intradural-extramedullary tumors were in equal number, and total tumor removal was achieved in most of the patients without adjuvant treatment. Laminotomy was the main surgical method in 60% of the patients with spinal tumor, especially in children younger than 3 years of age.
Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey.
Alper
A
Baysefer
Kamil Melih
KM
Akay
Yusuf
Y
Izci
Hakan
H
Kayali
Erdener
E
Timurkaynak
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009133:Muscular Atrophy / Q000209:etiology; D018204:Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D010291:Paresis / Q000209:etiology; D012021:Reflex, Abnormal; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D020886:Somatosensory Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome