At first, the labour progressed well, but then be¬ came arrested. After clinical and
radiological ex¬ amination the arrested labour was attributed to a large fetal head. Because …

DISCUSSION In reviewing the available literature, it was not possible'to find any record of a
congenital malignant brain tumour (exclusive of a derrnoid) in which the diagnosis had …

Sir.—A 1-month-old male infant with quadriplegia and apneic spells was found to have
congenital astrocytoma in the cervical spinal cord, as defined by magnetic resonance …

DISCUSSION About 46 congenital cerebral tumours have been described in the literature, if
a congenital tumour is defined as one that is present at birth or appears up to the age of 60 …

1. Two unusual cases of congenital astrocytomas are reported. Clinically, the first case
manifested enlarged external genitalia at birth and the occurrence of convulsions at 3 weeks …

Seventy-nine children with histologically proven astrocytomas, 32 cerebral, 30 cerebellar, 9
thalamic, 6 optic nerve, and 2 in the 4th ventricular floor were reviewed retrospectively …

✓ A massive left intracerebral hematoma was surgically evacuated from a 2-week-old infant.
Pathological examination showed that the hemorrhage had developed within a fibrillary …

T HE RELATIVELY benign form of cere-bral astrocytoma is found only infrequently in
childhood; thus Ingraham and Matson 12 were able to describe only 15 examples of the …

INITIALLY, the very existence of congenital central nervous system tumors was in doubt; but
it now appears that they do exist, although infrequently. Solitare and Krigman, in their …

A case of a fatal cystic astrocytoma which involved the brainstem of a 12 year old girl is
reported. Its course encompassed more than 10 years despite the lack of any specific …