Posterior Fossa Tumors

Antonios Drevelegas; Danai Chourmouzi; Manos Constantinides; Konstantinos Drevelegas

doi:10.1055/s-0036-1592425

Journal of Pediatric Neuroradiology, Inhaltsverzeichnis

Journal of Pediatric Neuroradiology 2016; 05(02): 089-110
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1592425

Review Article

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart • New York

Posterior Fossa Tumors

Authors

Antonios Drevelegas

¹Department of Radiology, Interbalkan Medical Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece
Danai Chourmouzi

¹Department of Radiology, Interbalkan Medical Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece
Manos Constantinides

¹Department of Radiology, Interbalkan Medical Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece
Konstantinos Drevelegas

¹Department of Radiology, Interbalkan Medical Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece

Abstract

In this article, we review the most common posterior fossa pediatric neoplasms. We describe the computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings used in the initial evaluation of a pediatric brain tumors. We also discuss the advanced MRI techniques which provide information about the physiology of the tumors and play an important role in the differential diagnosis as well as in the preoperative evaluation of different tumor types.

Keywords

pediatric posterior fossa tumor - pilocytic astrocytoma - medulloblastoma - ependymomas - brain stem glioma - magnetic resonance imaging

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