Abstract

ROSALES LABRADA, Regis Gerardo et al. Clinical - Imaging Description of Brainstem Tumors in the Childhood. ccm [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.3, pp.809-819. ISSN 1560-4381.

Introduction: brainstem tumors represents about 10 to 25% of the tumors of the nervous system in the child and 20% to 25% of infratentorial tumors. Objective: to describe the clinical-imaging findings in patients with brain stem tumors. Method: a retrospective study was done in children with the diagnosis of brainsteam tumor from the   Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja Pediatric Teaching Hospital; Cuba from January 2004 to December 2016. Results: there was a predominance of females in the age group between 0 - 5 years forl 58.3%. The commonest symptoms occurring at any time were headache (25%) and the patsy of cranial nervous was the neurological signs present at diagnosis. The median symptom interval was two months between onset of symptoms and diagnosis in 81.2% of patients.  The diffuse location of the tumor in the brainstem predominated over the focal distribution in 66.6% with epicenter in the encephalic bridge. The therapeutic option of choice was based on radiotherapy, chemotherapy and monoclonal therapy Hr3 in all diffuse brain stem tumors Conclusion: magnetic resonance examination is the most suitable imaging technique in the brainsteam` tumors   study.

Keywords : tumors; brainsteam; magnetic resonance.

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