TUMORS OF THE BRAIN IN CHILDREN AND IN ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

A relatively large number of instances of tumor of the brain in children have come under clinical and anatomic investigation at the Mount Sinai Hospital in the course of the last twenty years. While highly important studies on similar material have been made by a number of other observes,1it seems advisable to place on record additional material, particularly that which was carefully studied over a long period. The time element is considered important, for it is thought likely to reveal some instructive clinical and anatomic observations. The latter are centered mainly about such questions as the type of tumor commonly encountered in children, the ages at which tumors of certain types are more likely to occur, the existence or absence of characteristic clinical manifestations of tumor in the young and, finally, the benefits derived from surgical intervention or radiotherapy as measured by comparing the survival periods of patients