title: [Clinical manifestation of neoplasm cerebri in children hospitalized in pediatric neurology department].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Brain tumors are the second most common malignancy of childhood, following leukemia. Cause factor of some brain tumors is suggested by genetic predisposition.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  It was a correlation between early symptoms of the brain tumor and its histology, localization and MR imaging.
  
  
  METHODS
  13 children, aged 3 to 16 years, took part in this study. MR imaging was performed in all of them. 6 children were operated with histological examination of tumor tissue.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The most common first clinical symptom of tumors were epileptic seizure in 6 children and headache in 7. The most frequent tumor was supratentorial glioma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In pediatric neurology department were hospitalized older children with brain tumors. In most of them headache and epileptic seizures occured.
authors.affiliation: Kilnika Neurologii Dzieciecej, Uniwersytet Jagielloński Colleajum Medicum, Kraków. anakurazajac@o2.pl
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zajac
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gergont
authors.forename: Sławomir
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kroczka
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wesołowska
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology