Spectrum of Infratentorial Paediatric CNS tumors in a tertiary care hospital

Abstract

Introduction: Due to lack of national wide registry of paediatric brain tumor cases in India, it is difficult to estimate the prevalence and its burden for the nation hence, hospital-based cancer registries will provide the information on the prevalence of tumor cases in a given region. Objective: The aim of this study is to analyze the incidence of various types of infratentorial paediatric tumors who underwent excision of the tumors from January 2008 to January 2018 in the Department of Neurosurgery, ASRAM, a tertiary care hospital located at Eluru, Andhra Pradesh state in India. Results: Infratentorial tumors are more common in the paediatric population below the age of 10 years and medulloblastomas being the commonest tumor among them. There is no much difference in the gender distribution in the incidence of Infratentorial tumors in our study. Conclusion: Our results are similar to other hospital-based data regarding to incidences and histological spectrum of infratentorial tumors. Our study strongly recommends that hospital based registries will provide the magnitude and distribution of cancers in a given region.

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Anjana Priyanka Aluri, Ramesh Teegala, Chaitanya Latha Sappidi, Asha Thota,, Swathi Chilukuri

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  • EP ID EP498585
  • DOI 10.17511/ jopm. 2018.i5.03
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Anjana Priyanka Aluri, Ramesh Teegala, Chaitanya Latha Sappidi, Asha Thota, , Swathi Chilukuri (2018). Spectrum of Infratentorial Paediatric CNS tumors in a tertiary care hospital. Pathology Update: Tropical Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 4(5), 384-388. https://europub.co.uk./articles/-A-498585