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Surgical treatment of posterior fossa tumors in infancy and childhood: techniques and results

✍ Scribed by Dieter Voth; Manfred Schwarz; Michael Geißler

Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
627 KB
Volume
16
Category
Article
ISSN
0344-5607

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✦ Synopsis

In a collective of 72 children with tumors of the posterior fossa, the preoperative diagnosis, operation planning and performance, and use of additional procedures, like the preliminary ventricular drainage and interventriculostomy are described. The extent of intra- and postoperative complications is given. Postoperative lethality was 0% in the group operated on between 1979 and 1991. The responsible factors are discussed. The findings support the opinion of ALBRIGHT (1989) that the prognosis for such patients is most promising in the hands of a specialist in pediatric neurosurgery.

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