✓ The cases of 50 patients with craniopharyngioma operated on at The Hospital for Sick
Children in Toronto between January, 1975, and December, 1989, are reviewed. All patients …

✓ All patients with confirmed intracranial germ-cell tumors treated at the Hospital of Sick
Children during the period January, 1952, to December, 1989, were reviewed. Of the 51 tumors …

31 children with spina bifida occulta who have presented with back pain, scoliosis, a progressive
neurological deficit involving lower limbs or a neurogenic bladder have been found to …

✓ The authors review the cases of 144 children with medulloblastoma treated between 1950
and 1980. Duration of time between onset of symptoms and initial treatment was less than …

✓ Ninety-seven children with lipomyelomeningoceles were operated on at the Hospital for
Sick Children between January, 1960, and December, 1982. The most common factor that …

✓ The prognostic factors and survival data were analyzed for 35 children (aged under 16
years at diagnosis) with childhood infratentorial ependymomas treated surgically at The …

✓ Although the development of tonsillar herniation (acquired Chiari malformation) in
association with lumboperitoneal (LP) shunting is well recognized, it has previously been …

Despite the great capacity for the pediatric brain to recover from stroke, the morbidity and
mortality in children who harbor an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) remains high. This study …

✓ A retrospective study of the management of patients with infected cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
shunts was undertaken, covering the 20 years from 1960 to 1979, inclusive, and involving …

• In a group of 78 children with hydrocephalus in the first months of life, the level and pattern
of intelligence were considered in relation to various parameters and symptoms of their …