Cerebellar astrocytoma in childhood.

150 I T IS GENERALLY appreciated that modulloblastoma, perhaps the most rapidly growing and highly malignant of all brain neoplasms, commonly involves the corebelhum and fotmrth ventricle of young children. Umifortimnatoly, the gloomy outlook for this tumor has too often spread to encompass all brain tumors in childhood and overshadow the fact that cerebollar astrocytoma, a tuITlO at the opposite end of the scale of differentiation among ghiomas and perhaps the most favorable of all intracranial neoplasms at any age, is almost equally cornmon in youmig children. It is the purpose of this presentation to discuss the characteristic symptoms and findings, both clinical and laboratory, of this benign tumor of the cerebellum in children and to stress the high rate of curability when proper treatmont is carried out early enough.