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marble
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06/17/04 - 07:45 AM

What is the most common childhood brain tumour? I have one source that sais that it's an actrocytoma and another source that sais that it is a medulloblastoma.

usmleasr
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06/17/04 - 11:07 AM

hi,
MC childhood brain tumour is pilocytic astrocytoma....

when it comes to MC malignant tumour of brain in childhood then it is medulloblastoma...

note that both r posterior fossa tumors...

marble
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06/19/04 - 03:05 PM

aha, tricky... I asked my professor and he said that the amount of cases that they see of these two neoplasms is 50/50.

Dawg_MD
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07/07/04 - 04:34 PM

According to Kaplan, infretentorial brain tumors are the most common brain tumors in children with the order of occurence being :
1. cerebellar astrocytoma
2. medulloblastoma
3. brain stem glioma
4. ependymoma

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07/07/04 - 04:40 PM

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