Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-mlc7c Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-09T14:41:13.058Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

7 - Pediatric tumors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2010

By
Jane Kim ,
Soonmee Cha ,
Heike E. Daldrup-Link  and
Robert Goldsby
Edited by
Heike E. Daldrup-Link  and
Charles A. Gooding
Heike E. Daldrup-Link
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
Charles A. Gooding
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
Get access

Summary

A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Chapter
Information
Essentials of Pediatric Radiology
A Multimodality Approach
 , pp. 181 - 219
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Akyuz, C, Varan, A, Kupeli, Set al. (2008) Medulloblastoma in children: a 32-year experience from a single institution. J Neurooncol 90, 99–103.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Albright, AL, Packer, RJ, Zimmerman, Ret al. (1993) Magnetic resonance scans should replace biopsies for the diagnosis of diffuse brain stem gliomas: a report from the Children's Cancer Group. Neurosurgery 33, 1026–9; discussion 1029–30.Google Scholar
Ashwal, S, Hinshaw, DB, Bedros, A (1984) CNS primitive neuroectodermal tumors of childhood. Med Pediatr Oncol 12, 180–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Barkovich, AJPediatric Neuroimaging, 4th edn. (Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2005).Google Scholar
Bernhardtsen, T, Laursen, H, Bojsen-Moller, M, Gjerris, F (2003) Sub-classification of low-grade cerebellar astrocytoma: is it clinically meaningful?Childs Nerv Syst 19, 729–35.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Castillo, M, Davis, PC, Takei, Y, Hoffman, JC (1990) Intracranial ganglioglioma: MR, CT, and clinical findings in 18 patients. AJR Am J Roentgenol 154, 607–12.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Chang, T, Teng, MM, Guo, WY, Sheng, WC (1989) CT of pineal tumors and intracranial germ-cell tumors. AJR Am J Roentgenol 153, 1269–74.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Daumas-Duport, C, Varlet, P, Tucker, MLet al. (1997) Oligodendrogliomas. Part I: Patterns of growth, histological diagnosis, clinical and imaging correlations: a study of 153 cases. J Neurooncol 34, 37–59.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Desai, KI, Nadkarni, TD, Muzumdar, DP, Goel, A (2001) Prognostic factors for cerebellar astrocytomas in children: a study of 102 cases. Pediatr Neurosurg 35, 311–17.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Duffner, PK, Cohen, ME, Myers, MH, Heise, HW (1986) Survival of children with brain tumors: SEER Program, 1973–1980. Neurology 36, 597–601.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ernestus, RI, Wilcke, O, Schrode, R (1991) Supratentorial ependymomas in childhood: clinicopathological findings and prognosis. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 111, 96–102.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Farmer, JP, Montes, JL, Freeman, CRet al. (2001) Brainstem gliomas. A 10-year institutional review. Pediatr Neurosurg 34, 206–14.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Finizio, FS (1995) CT and MRI aspects of supratentorial hemispheric tumors of childhood and adolescence. Childs Nerv Syst 11, 559–67.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Giannini, C, Scheithauer, BW, Burger, PCet al. (1999) Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma: what do we really know about it?Cancer 85, 2033–45.3.0.CO;2-Z>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gjerris, F, Agerlin, N, Borgesen, SEet al. (1998) Epidemiology and prognosis in children treated for intracranial tumours in Denmark 1960–1984. Childs Nerv Syst 14, 302–11.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hinshaw, DB Jr, Ashwal, S, Thompson, JR, Hasso, AN (1983) Neuroradiology of primitive neuroectodermal tumors. Neuroradiology 25, 87–92.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Jallo, GI, Biser-Rohrbaugh, A, Freed, D (2004) Brainstem gliomas. Childs Nerv Sys 20, 143–53.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Koeller, KK, Rushing, EJ (2003) From the archives of the AFIP: medulloblastoma: a comprehensive review with radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics 23, 1613–37.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Koeller, KK, Rushing, EJ (2004) From the archives of the AFIP: pilocytic astrocytoma: radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics 24, 1693–1708.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Koeller, KK, Rushing, EJ (2005) From the archives of the AFIP: Oligodendroglioma and its variants: radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics 25, 1669–88.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kornreich, L, Blaser, S, Schwarz, Met al. (2001) Optic pathway glioma: correlation of imaging findings with the presence of neurofibromatosis. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 22, 1963–9.Google ScholarPubMed
Kuroiwa, T, Bergey, GK, Rothman, MIet al.(1995) Radiologic appearance of the dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor. Radiology 197, 233–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Meyers, SP, Kemp, SS, Tarr, RW (1992) MR imaging features of medulloblastomas. AJR Am J Roentgenol 158, 859–65.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ostertun, B, Wolf, HK, Campos, MGet al.(1996) Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors: MR and CT evaluation. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 17, 419–30.Google ScholarPubMed
Parsa, CF, Hoyt, CS, Lesser, RLet al. (2001) Spontaneous regression of optic gliomas: thirteen cases documented by serial neuroimaging. Arch Ophthalmol 119, 516–29.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pizzo, PA, Poplack, DG (eds.) Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology (Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2005).Google Scholar
Pollack, IF (1999) Pediatric brain tumors. Semin Surg Oncol 16, 73–90.3.0.CO;2-0>CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Reni, M, Gatta, G, Mazza, E, Vecht, C (2007) Ependymoma. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 63, 81–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rickert, CH, Paulus, W (2001) Epidemiology of central nervous system tumors in childhood and adolescence based on the new WHO classification. Childs Nerv Syst 17, 503–11.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sandhu, A, Kendall, B (1987) Computed tomography in management of medulloblastomas. Neuroradiology 29, 444–52.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schild, SE, Nisi, K, Scheithauer, BWet al.(1998) The results of radiotherapy for ependymomas: the Mayo Clinic experience. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 42, 953–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Shu, HK, Sall, WF, Maity, Aet al. (2007) Childhood intracranial ependymoma: twenty-year experience from a single institution. Cancer 110, 432–41.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Smyth, MD, Horn, BN, Russo, C, Berger, MS (2000) Intracranial ependymomas of childhood: current management strategies. Pediatr Neurosurg 33, 138–50.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Swartz, JD, Zimmerman, RA, Bilaniuk, LT (1982) Computed tomography of intracranial ependymomas. Radiology 143, 97–101.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tenreiro-Picon, OR, Kamath, SV, Knorr, JRet al. (1995) Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: CT and MRI features. Pediatr Radiol 25, 540–3.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tomita, T, McLone, DG, Yasue, M (1988) Cerebral primitive neuroectodermal tumors in childhood. J Neurooncol 6, 233–43.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Viano, JC, Herrera, EJ, Suarez, JC (2001) Cerebellar astrocytomas: a 24-year experience. Childs Nerv Syst 17, 607–10; discussion 611.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Abramson, SJ, Price, AP (2008) Imaging of pediatric lymphomas. Radiol Clin North Am 46(2), 313–38.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Barksdale, EM, Obokhare, I (2009) Teratomas in infants and children. Curr Opin Pediatr 21(3), 344–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Benz, MR, Tchekmedyian, N, Eilber, FCet al. (2009) Utilization of positron emission tomography in the management of patients with sarcoma. Curr Opin Oncol 21(4), 345–51.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Cohn, SL, Pearson, ADJ, London, WBet al. (2009) The International Neuroblastoma Risk Group (INRG) Classification System: an INRG Task Force report. J Clin Oncol 27(2), 289–97.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Darge, K, Jaramillo, D, Siegel, MJ (2008) Whole-body MRI in children: current status and future applications. Eur J Radiol 68(2), 289–98.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fayad, LM, Bluemke, DA, Weber, KL, Fishman, EK (2006) Characterization of pediatric skeletal tumors and tumor-like conditions: specific cross-sectional imaging signs. Skeletal Radiol 35(5), 259–68.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fitzgerald, PA, Goldsby, RE, Huberty, JPet al. (2006) Malignant pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas: a phase II study of therapy with high-dose 131I-metaidobenzylguanidine (131I-MIBG). Ann N Y Acad Sci 1073, 465–90.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jadvar, H, Connolly, LP, Fahey, FH, Shulkin, BL (2007) PET and PET/CT in pediatric oncology. Semin Nucl Med 37(5), 316–31.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Jha, P, Chawla, SC, Tavri, Set al. (2009) Pediatric liver tumors – a pictorial review. Eur Radiol 19(1), 209–19.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Laffan, EE, Ngan, BY, Navarro, OM (2009) Pediatric soft-tissue tumors and pseudotumors: MR imaging features with pathologic correlation: Part 2. Tumors of fibroblastic/myofibroblastic, so-called fibrohistiocytic, muscular, lymphomatous, neurogenic, hair matrix, and uncertain origin. Radiographics 29(4), e36.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Marabelle, A, Campagne, D, Déchelotte, Pet al. (2008) Focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver in patients previously treated for pediatric neoplastic diseases. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 30(7), 546–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Monclair, T, Brodeur, GM, Ambros, PFet al. (2009) The International Neuroblastoma Risk Group (INRG) staging system: an INRG Task Force report. Journal of Clinical Oncology 27(2), 298–303.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Reaman, GH (2009) What, why, and when we image: considerations for diagnostic imaging and clinical research in the Children's Oncology Group. Pediatr Radiol 39(Suppl. 1), S42–5.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Stehr, M (2009) Pediatric urologic rhabdomyosarcoma. Curr Opin Urol 19(4), 402–6.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wootton-Gorges, SL (2009) MR imaging of primary bone tumors and tumor-like conditions in children. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am 17(3), 469–87.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wright, CD (2009) Mediastinal tumors and cysts in the pediatric population. Thorac Surg Clin 19(1), 47–61.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Akyuz, C, Varan, A, Kupeli, Set al. (2008) Medulloblastoma in children: a 32-year experience from a single institution. J Neurooncol 90, 99–103.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Albright, AL, Packer, RJ, Zimmerman, Ret al. (1993) Magnetic resonance scans should replace biopsies for the diagnosis of diffuse brain stem gliomas: a report from the Children's Cancer Group. Neurosurgery 33, 1026–9; discussion 1029–30.Google Scholar
Ashwal, S, Hinshaw, DB, Bedros, A (1984) CNS primitive neuroectodermal tumors of childhood. Med Pediatr Oncol 12, 180–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Barkovich, AJPediatric Neuroimaging, 4th edn. (Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2005).Google Scholar
Bernhardtsen, T, Laursen, H, Bojsen-Moller, M, Gjerris, F (2003) Sub-classification of low-grade cerebellar astrocytoma: is it clinically meaningful?Childs Nerv Syst 19, 729–35.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Castillo, M, Davis, PC, Takei, Y, Hoffman, JC (1990) Intracranial ganglioglioma: MR, CT, and clinical findings in 18 patients. AJR Am J Roentgenol 154, 607–12.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Chang, T, Teng, MM, Guo, WY, Sheng, WC (1989) CT of pineal tumors and intracranial germ-cell tumors. AJR Am J Roentgenol 153, 1269–74.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Daumas-Duport, C, Varlet, P, Tucker, MLet al. (1997) Oligodendrogliomas. Part I: Patterns of growth, histological diagnosis, clinical and imaging correlations: a study of 153 cases. J Neurooncol 34, 37–59.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Desai, KI, Nadkarni, TD, Muzumdar, DP, Goel, A (2001) Prognostic factors for cerebellar astrocytomas in children: a study of 102 cases. Pediatr Neurosurg 35, 311–17.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Duffner, PK, Cohen, ME, Myers, MH, Heise, HW (1986) Survival of children with brain tumors: SEER Program, 1973–1980. Neurology 36, 597–601.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ernestus, RI, Wilcke, O, Schrode, R (1991) Supratentorial ependymomas in childhood: clinicopathological findings and prognosis. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 111, 96–102.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Farmer, JP, Montes, JL, Freeman, CRet al. (2001) Brainstem gliomas. A 10-year institutional review. Pediatr Neurosurg 34, 206–14.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Finizio, FS (1995) CT and MRI aspects of supratentorial hemispheric tumors of childhood and adolescence. Childs Nerv Syst 11, 559–67.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Giannini, C, Scheithauer, BW, Burger, PCet al. (1999) Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma: what do we really know about it?Cancer 85, 2033–45.3.0.CO;2-Z>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gjerris, F, Agerlin, N, Borgesen, SEet al. (1998) Epidemiology and prognosis in children treated for intracranial tumours in Denmark 1960–1984. Childs Nerv Syst 14, 302–11.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hinshaw, DB Jr, Ashwal, S, Thompson, JR, Hasso, AN (1983) Neuroradiology of primitive neuroectodermal tumors. Neuroradiology 25, 87–92.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Jallo, GI, Biser-Rohrbaugh, A, Freed, D (2004) Brainstem gliomas. Childs Nerv Sys 20, 143–53.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Koeller, KK, Rushing, EJ (2003) From the archives of the AFIP: medulloblastoma: a comprehensive review with radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics 23, 1613–37.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Koeller, KK, Rushing, EJ (2004) From the archives of the AFIP: pilocytic astrocytoma: radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics 24, 1693–1708.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Koeller, KK, Rushing, EJ (2005) From the archives of the AFIP: Oligodendroglioma and its variants: radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics 25, 1669–88.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kornreich, L, Blaser, S, Schwarz, Met al. (2001) Optic pathway glioma: correlation of imaging findings with the presence of neurofibromatosis. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 22, 1963–9.Google ScholarPubMed
Kuroiwa, T, Bergey, GK, Rothman, MIet al.(1995) Radiologic appearance of the dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor. Radiology 197, 233–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Meyers, SP, Kemp, SS, Tarr, RW (1992) MR imaging features of medulloblastomas. AJR Am J Roentgenol 158, 859–65.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ostertun, B, Wolf, HK, Campos, MGet al.(1996) Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors: MR and CT evaluation. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 17, 419–30.Google ScholarPubMed
Parsa, CF, Hoyt, CS, Lesser, RLet al. (2001) Spontaneous regression of optic gliomas: thirteen cases documented by serial neuroimaging. Arch Ophthalmol 119, 516–29.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pizzo, PA, Poplack, DG (eds.) Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology (Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2005).Google Scholar
Pollack, IF (1999) Pediatric brain tumors. Semin Surg Oncol 16, 73–90.3.0.CO;2-0>CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Reni, M, Gatta, G, Mazza, E, Vecht, C (2007) Ependymoma. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 63, 81–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rickert, CH, Paulus, W (2001) Epidemiology of central nervous system tumors in childhood and adolescence based on the new WHO classification. Childs Nerv Syst 17, 503–11.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sandhu, A, Kendall, B (1987) Computed tomography in management of medulloblastomas. Neuroradiology 29, 444–52.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schild, SE, Nisi, K, Scheithauer, BWet al.(1998) The results of radiotherapy for ependymomas: the Mayo Clinic experience. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 42, 953–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Shu, HK, Sall, WF, Maity, Aet al. (2007) Childhood intracranial ependymoma: twenty-year experience from a single institution. Cancer 110, 432–41.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Smyth, MD, Horn, BN, Russo, C, Berger, MS (2000) Intracranial ependymomas of childhood: current management strategies. Pediatr Neurosurg 33, 138–50.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Swartz, JD, Zimmerman, RA, Bilaniuk, LT (1982) Computed tomography of intracranial ependymomas. Radiology 143, 97–101.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tenreiro-Picon, OR, Kamath, SV, Knorr, JRet al. (1995) Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: CT and MRI features. Pediatr Radiol 25, 540–3.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tomita, T, McLone, DG, Yasue, M (1988) Cerebral primitive neuroectodermal tumors in childhood. J Neurooncol 6, 233–43.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Viano, JC, Herrera, EJ, Suarez, JC (2001) Cerebellar astrocytomas: a 24-year experience. Childs Nerv Syst 17, 607–10; discussion 611.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×