Pediatric Epidural Tumors of the Spine - Experience of a Decade from the Kashmir Valley

作者：Khursheed N^*; Rumana M; Ramzan A; Zahoor S; Nisar S; Sarbjit C; Abrar W; Basharat M; Mohsin R; Kirmani A; Bhat R

来源：Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2011, 47(1): 22-30.

DOI：10.1159/000327142

• Epidural tumor, spine
• Epidural tumor, children
• Kashmir

We present our experience after analyzing retrospectively the clinicopathological characteristics, surgical approaches, immediate and long-term postoperative complications and survival outcome of pediatric spinal epidural tumors treated over a period of 10 years from 2000 to 2009 in a tertiary-care hospital. Our study included benign and malignant tumors. The majority of our patients were boys (14:8). The duration of symptoms was longer in benign lesions. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was the commonest malignant tumor and aneurysmal bone cyst was the commonest benign tumor. The mean duration of follow-up was 19 months (range 3-48 months). Most of the patients improved in their neurological grade after surgery; however, the degree of excision had no bearing on the length of survival for malignant lesions.

• 出版日期2011
• 单位河北医科大学