Neonatal brain tumors: a review

Semin Perinatol. 1999 Aug;23(4):286-98. doi: 10.1016/s0146-0005(99)80037-8.

Abstract

This article presents two cases of infants with brain tumors and reviews the literature pertinent to congenital and neonatal brain tumors. Information regarding epidemiology, presentation, prognosis, and clinical management are also addressed with specific regard to differences between neonatal and childhood brain tumors. An appeal is made to consider (1) coordination of the care of these children through pediatric multidisciplinary neuro-oncology programs; (2) enrollment, whenever possible, in clinical trials; and (3) submission of available tumor tissue to pediatric tumor banks to assure its availability to interested researchers.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Brain Neoplasms* / congenital
  • Brain Neoplasms* / diagnosis
  • Brain Neoplasms* / epidemiology
  • Brain Neoplasms* / therapy
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging