“I have heard about a young boy (4 or 5 years old) in hungary with a serious spinal cord injury eight months ago: as of my information, his spinal cord has broken between his skull and C1 totally (he is ventilator-dependent). What kind of therapies do you think, are suitable a person like him? Can we hope in some research that will help him to improve his condition? Are there any special proble...

Background  The association between spinal cord tumors and hydrocephalus is a rarely reported phenomenon. Diagnosis in this group of patients is difficult as they present with findings of an intracranial pathology and the symptoms of a spinal lesion may be absent. Case Report  We report two cases of spinal cord tumors presenting with visual disturbance and findings of increased intracranial pre...

BACKGROUND Till date there is no published multi-institutional data regarding the epidemiological profile of pediatric brain tumors in India. AIM The present retrospective study analyses the histological spectrum of pediatric age group brain tumors in seven tertiary care hospitals in India. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data regarding frequencies of various primary brain tumors (diagnosed according ...

Pediatric spinal deformity results from multiple conditions including congenital anomalies, neuromuscular disorders, skeletal dysplasia, and developmental disorders (idiopathic). Pediatric spinal deformities can be progressive and cause pulmonary compromise, neurological deficits, and cardiovascular compromise. The classification and treatment of these disorders have evolved since surgical trea...

'Blastomas' are tumors virtually unique to childhood. Controversy surrounds their nomenclature and there is no globally accepted classification. They are thought to arise from immature, primitive tissues that present persistent embryonal elements on histology, affect a younger pediatric population and are usually malignant. The 'commoner' blastomas (neuroblastoma, nephroblastoma, hepatoblastoma...

BACKGROUND Pilocytic astrocytoma (PA) is a benign neoplasm that typically occurs in the brain within the pediatric and adolescent age groups and is uncommon in adults. It rarely occurs within the ventricles, and the overall prognosis is favorable. A PA of the brain with spinal metastasis at presentation has never been reported in an adult. CASE DESCRIPTION We report a case of a 47-year-old ma...

Radiosurgery and brachytherapy are potentially useful treatment techniques that sparingly applied in pediatric oncology. They often used the setting of reirradiation for recurrent or metastatic tumors. Reirradiation children with tumors is complicated by tolerance critical organs potential risks overall long-term dose-dependent complications. We review current literature available support use r...

In the neonate, vertebral ossification is not complete. Hence in the first half of infancy before the spinous processes ossify and fuse, it is possible to image the spinal canal from a dorsal view. Later in life a paramedian approach can be used when the spinous processes are more ossified and lead to posterior acoustic shadowing hence precluding imaging in the midline sagittal plane. A high fr...