Open AccessA treatise on pediatric meningiomas: Single-center retrospective cohort experience and review of literature
Author(s) -
Sonal Jain,
Dattatraya Muzumdar,
Abhidha Shah,
Atul Goel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of pediatric neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.247
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1998-3948
pISSN - 1817-1745
DOI - 10.4103/jpn.jpn_102_19
Subject(s) - medicine , radiological weapon , etiology , neurofibromatosis , presentation (obstetrics) , meningioma , pediatrics , retrospective cohort study , vomiting , cohort , surgery , radiology , pathology
Pediatric meningiomas are infrequently encountered in clinical practice. In comparison to adults, they have a distinct pathophysiology and clinical presentation. They are benign but locally aggressive tumors. Radical excision often culminates in good outcome.