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Vol. 1. Issue 2.
Pages 85-88 (January 1990)
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Vol. 1. Issue 2.
Pages 85-88 (January 1990)
Derivación de LCR y tumores de fosa posterior en la infancia
M.A. Arráez, V. Arjona, J.M. Martín
Servicio Regional de Neurocirugía. R.G.E. Virgen de las Nieves. Granada
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Se estudian un total de 66 tumores infantiles de fosa posterior con hidrocefalia para considerar la necesidad real de insertar de forma sistemática derivación de LCR. Se correlacionan situación anatómica y tipo histológico con la intervención derivativa por HIC u otras complicaciones. Sólo el 34,8 % de los pacientes fue sometido a derivación de LCR en relación con HIC. De los tumores situados en la línea media (malignos en su mayoría) un 35 % requirió derivación perioperatoriaj de los situados en hemisferios cerebelosos (habitualmente benignos), un 22,7 %. Globalmente necesitaron dicha derivación el 42 % de los tumores malignos y sólo el 17 % de los benignos (astrocitomas 20,8 %, meduloblastomas 45,4 %, ependimomas 57,1 %). La necesidad de shunt postoperatorio debido a HIC (en pacientes sometidos a craniectomía sin shunt previo) fue escasa: 4,3 %de los astrocitomas operados sin shunt, 25 % de ependimomas, 23,5 % de meduloblastomas. Se analizan los referidos datos y se discute la conveniencia de insertar derivación de LCR en relación con HIC, localización anatómica y presunción histológica.

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Hidrocefalia
tumores infantiles de fosa posterior
derivación de LCR
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Sixty-six children with posterior fossa tumours and hydrocephalus are reviewed in order to ascertain whether a CSF-shunt was necessary. The anatomical situation and pathology of tumours were related to the need for a shunt due to IICP or other complications. 34,8 % of patients were shunted to control hydrocephalus. 35 % of midline tumours (most of them malignant) needed a per-operative valve while of those situated in the cerebellar hemispheres (usually benings) only 22 % need to be shunted. On the whole, a shunt was insert in 42 % of malignant tumours and in 17 % of benign neoplasm (astrocytomas 20,8 oTo; medulloblastomas 45,4 %, ependymomas 57,1 %). The need for a postoperative shunt due to IICP (in patients with craniectomy without a previous shunt) was scanty: 4,3 % of astrocytomas, 23,5 % of medulloblastomas and 25 % of ependymomas. It is concluded that a CSF shunt is not necessary in all cases of posterior fossa tumours, and it depends on tumour situation and pathology.

Key Words:
Childhood posterior fossa tumours
hydrocephalus
CSF shunt

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