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We present our experience after analyzing retrospectively the clinicopathological characteristics, surgical approaches, immediate and long-term postoperative complications and survival outcome of pediatric spinal epidural tumors treated over a period of 10 years from 2000 to 2009 in a tertiary-care hospital. Our study included benign and malignant tumors. The majority of our patients were boys (14:8). The duration of symptoms was longer in benign lesions. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was the commonest malignant tumor and aneurysmal bone cyst was the commonest benign tumor. The mean duration of follow-up was 19 months (range 3-48 months). Most of the patients improved in their neurological grade after surgery; however, the degree of excision had no bearing on the length of survival for malignant lesions.
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Neoplasias Epidurais/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Epidurais/etnologia , Adolescente , Fatores Etários , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Neoplasias Epidurais/terapia , Feminino , Seguimentos , Humanos , Índia/etnologia , Estimativa de Kaplan-Meier , Masculino , Paquistão/etnologia , Estudos Retrospectivos , Neoplasias da Coluna Vertebral/diagnóstico , Neoplasias da Coluna Vertebral/etnologia , Neoplasias da Coluna Vertebral/terapiaRESUMO
Intraparenchymal schwannomas are rare. The usual presentation is of a classical intracranial mass lesion. We report a frontal intraparenchymal schwannoma in a pediatric patient with a history of seizure. An MRI scan revealed a uniformly enhancing tumor with perilesional edema. This type of tumor is rarely found in this location. It is important to recognize and distinguish a schwannoma from other more common frontal brain tumors as the outcome is good and recurrence is rare.
