BACKGROUND The purpose of the study was to analyze the risk factors for failed extubation in subjects submitted to infratentorial craniotomy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Patients aged over 18 years who received infratentorial craniotomy for brain tumor resection were consecutively included in this study. Perioperative variables were collected and analyzed. Univariate analyses and multiple logistic reg...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate ADC values in the preoperative grading of primary infratentorial brain tumors in children. MATERIAL /METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed 50 MR examinations of patients with infratentorial tumors. All children were operated on and tumors were histopathologically proved as low-grade - 25 (24 pilocytic astrocytomas, 1 ependymoma) and high-grad...

Glioblastomas multiformes (GBMs), are the most common primary malignant tumors of Central Nervous System. Frequently located in supratentorial topography, infratentorial location is rare, around 0-3.4% GBMs.   The diagnosis these uncommon adults, few cases have been reported, being even more infrequent elderly patients . typical clinical presentation a rapidly growing posterior fossa lesio...

Objectives: The characteristics of 144 Iraqi children with primary CNS tumors were reviewed to identify median age at presentation, the disease distribution in terms gender, main presenting symptoms, most common grade and histological subtypes, predominant subsites which central nervous system malignancies arise from, according WHO 2016 classification. Patients methods: Medical records used col...

Acute obstructive hydrocephalus due to infratentorial extra-axial fluid collection (EAFC) is an extremely rare complication of foramen magnum decompression (FMD) and durotomy for Chiari malformation type I. Presence of infratentorial  EAFC invariably causes obstruction at the level of the fourth ventricle or aqueduct of Silvius, thereby indicating its definitive role in hydrocephalus. Pathogene...