Search results for "Ependymoma"

Metastasizing anaplastic ependymoma in an adult. Chromosomal imbalances, metabolic and gene expression profiles

2009

Clinical aspects and prognosis of ependymoma in infants and children

2001

Thirty-two patients (22 boys and 10 girls) with a histologically confirmed diagnosis of ependymoma were treated between 1972 and 1999. A total macroscopic resection was achieved in 16 of these patients, whereas 15 resections were classified by the surgeon as subtotal. In 1 patient a ventriculostomy was created as part of a palliative strategy. All children over 3 years old were treated with postoperative radiotherapy. Chemotherapy consisted of procarbazine, ifosfamide, etoposide, methotrexate, cisplatin and cytosine arabinoside. There was 1 perioperative death. Twenty children developed a relapse of disease within 2 months to 13 years and 1 month after the initial therapy. A maximal number …

Measurements of the volume and density of intracerebral tumors by CT following therapy.

1982

For the interpretation of curative measures in patients with cerebral tumors CT is of increasing importance. The therapeutic effects can be demonstrated by close follow-up studies without any of the disadvantage of invasive neuroradiological methods. Our investigations of 125 patients with cerebral tumors are based on volume and density determinations. The CT studies of removed or inoperable tumors followed by radiation and/or cytostatic therapy prove that the best results follow a combination of both. In the present cases however, if CT proves postoperatively, at the end of radiation or at the beginning of the application of cytostatics that there is a residual mass, a complete remission c…