Samina Zaman, Fizza Jahangir, Zonaira Rathore, Muneeza Khalid, Mahvish Hussain, Mehreen Nasir, Sidra Shafqat, Ayesha Naseem.
Histologic Spectrum of Brain Tumors at Children\'s Hospital and Institute of Child Health, Lahore.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(2):567-9.

There is a difference in geographical distribution, clinical aspects, effect of therapy and prognosis in brain tumors occurring in infancy and childhood as compared to brain tumors of adults. This study is based on histologic spectrum of tumors of brain under 14 yea rs of age. A total of 15 5 brain tumors were diagnosed during the study period of eight years from Jan 2010 to 31st Dec 2017 . Out of which 52 (33.54%) were Supratentorial and 103 (66.45%) were Infratentorial in location. Medulloblastoma was the most common in this age group seen in 62 patients (40%). Thesecond most common tumor was Pilocytic astrocytoma diagnose d in 37 patients (23.87 %) followed by choroid plexus papilloma 14 cases (9.03 %), Ependymoma 13 cases (8.38%), Craniopharyngioma 08 cases (5.16 %), and Glioblastoma 6(3.87 %) . Other tumors include high grade gliomas NOS, Hemangioblastoma and Oligodendroglioma with 2 cases each(1.29 %), while a single case (0.64 %) of Meningioma, Hemangioma, Subependymalgiant cell tumor, Astroblastoma, Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma, Choroid plexus carcinoma, Immature teratoma,Langerhans cell histiocytosis and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma was diagnosed in this period. On conclusion,the commonest tumor was medulloblastoma and infratentorial tumors were more common than supratentorial among pediatric age group.

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