S R Alston, G N Fuller, O B Boyko, S A Goscin, A DiSclafani
{"title":"Ectopic immature renal tissue in a lumbosacral lipoma: pathologic and radiologic findings.","authors":"S R Alston, G N Fuller, O B Boyko, S A Goscin, A DiSclafani","doi":"10.1159/000120451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000120451","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ectopic immature renal tissue was found in a lumbosacral subcutaneous lipoma with intradural extension in a 6-day-old female with spina bifida. No additional neurologic or renal anomalies were found. Ectopic renal tissue is an extremely rare finding. Histopathologic and MRI results from this case are presented and the possible significance of ectopic renal tissue in relation to the origin of extrarenal Wilms' tumors is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":77766,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric neuroscience","volume":"15 2","pages":"100-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000120451","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13776663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management of hydrocephalus complicating childhood posterior fossa tumors.","authors":"M S Dias, A L Albright","doi":"10.1159/000120484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000120484","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examined the treatment of hydrocephalus in children with posterior fossa tumors to (1) compare the use of external ventricular drainage (EVD) with ventriculoperitoneal shunts (VPS), (2) determine the frequency of postoperative hydrocephalus requiring permanent shunts, and (3) determine which factors predict the need for a permanent shunt. The records of 58 children with posterior fossa tumors and associated hydrocephalus treated at our institution from 1979 to 1987 were retrospectively reviewed. Initial management of hydrocephalus included VPS in 25 patients, EVD in 17, and no treatment in 16. Patients in the 'VPS', 'EVD', and 'no treatment' groups differed only in the severity of hydrocephalus (less severe in the no treatment group than in the VPS and EVD groups) and in the method of dural closure following tumor resection (dura was left open more often in the EVD and no treatment groups). Of the 33 patients not initially shunted, only 9 (27%) subsequently required a shunt. These patients were compared with the remaining 24 patients who did not require a shunt. Two features predicted the need for a subsequent shunt: (1) resection of only a small volume of tumor and (2) the dura open following tumor resection. Complications of EVD were few; no patient deteriorated neurologically during or after ventricular catheter removal. We conclude that between two thirds and three quarters of patients with childhood posterior fossa tumors and associated hydrocephalus may be managed with perioperative EVD and will not require shunts. Patients in whom only a minimal tumor resection is performed and those in whom the dura is left open are more likely to need permanent VPS.</p>","PeriodicalId":77766,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric neuroscience","volume":"15 6","pages":"283-9; discussion 290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000120484","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13634381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E M Altschuler, L D Lunsford, R J Coffey, D J Bissonette, J C Flickinger
{"title":"Gamma knife radiosurgery for intracranial arteriovenous malformations in childhood and adolescence.","authors":"E M Altschuler, L D Lunsford, R J Coffey, D J Bissonette, J C Flickinger","doi":"10.1159/000120443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000120443","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Eighteen children or adolescents with intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVM) underwent stereotactic radiosurgery using the first North American gamma knife. This closed-skull, single-treatment therapy, utilizing 201 ionizing beams of gamma-irradiation, was used as an alternative to microsurgical removal in these selected patients (aged 34 months to 18 years, mean 12.3 years) beginning in August 1987. No significant perioperative morbidity occurred, and no patient rebled or died in the follow-up interval ranging between 7 and 19 months. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were used to monitor the response to treatment and to determine when postoperative angiography was indicated. Of seven AVMs examined with cerebral angiography 1 year after treatment, three were completely obliterated; three others were significantly smaller, and their complete obliteration is anticipated by 2 years after treatment. Follow-up CT or MRI confirmed attenuation or signal changes suggestive of edema surrounding the treatment volume in 3 patients; 1 had transient worsening of a preexisting neurological deficit. Although a more long-term perspective is still required for this new technology now available in the United States, we believe that gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery is a safe and effective method to obliterate AVM deemed too risky for microsurgical removal.</p>","PeriodicalId":77766,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric neuroscience","volume":"15 2","pages":"53-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000120443","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13840281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of maternal cocaine use on the fetus and newborn: review of the literature.","authors":"E H Roland, J J Volpe","doi":"10.1159/000120449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000120449","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The recent epidemic of cocaine abuse, especially among young individuals, has caused increasing concern about the potential hazards of prenatal cocaine exposure on the developing fetus and newborn. Although large-scale epidemiologic studies and long-term data are lacking, a review of the literature suggests strongly that the popular belief about the relative safety of cocaine is unfounded and that maternal cocaine abuse during pregnancy may be associated with increased perinatal morbidity and mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":77766,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric neuroscience","volume":"15 2","pages":"88-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000120449","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13840285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficacy of barbiturates in the treatment of resistant intracranial hypertension in severely head-injured children.","authors":"T Pittman, R Bucholz, D Williams","doi":"10.1159/000120433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000120433","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cerebral perfusion pressures (CPP) of less than 50 torr are associated with marginal cerebral blood flow and poor outcome. We report our experience with a group of 7 children who survived long period with CPP of less than 50 torr during treatment with pentobarbital. The study group was identified through a retrospective review of all head-injured patients admitted to Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children between 1984 and 1986. All of the patients presented had sustained intracranial pressure of greater than 20 torr which was resistant to conventional therapy. All patients received pentobarbital for at least 24 h and all had documented CPP of less than 50 torr for more than 30 min during that time. Of these 7 children: 3 made good recoveries; 2 are moderately disabled, and 2 are vegetative. Neither the CPP nor the length of pentobarbital coma was an accurate predictor of outcome. It seems likely that these children are a subset of those previously defined as having resistant intracranial hypertension and that, as a group, they may have benefited from pentobarbital administration. It is also apparent that, in this group, low CPP was not indicative of irreversible brain damage or brain death.</p>","PeriodicalId":77766,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric neuroscience","volume":"15 1","pages":"13-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000120433","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13778721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Kowal-Vern, I. Almanaseer, A. Bleyer, Kengo Sato, S. Shapiro, T. Javed, J. Mealey, L. Rorke, M. Quigley, D. Reigel, R. Kortyna, T. Nakahara, K. Sakoda, T. Uozumi, T. Takeda, T. Ogorochi, K. Ueda, M. Ueda, Tomoko Sasaki, S. Schiff, J. Oakes
{"title":"2nd annual International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology. Philadelphia, Pa, May 24-26, 1990. Abstracts.","authors":"A. Kowal-Vern, I. Almanaseer, A. Bleyer, Kengo Sato, S. Shapiro, T. Javed, J. Mealey, L. Rorke, M. Quigley, D. Reigel, R. Kortyna, T. Nakahara, K. Sakoda, T. Uozumi, T. Takeda, T. Ogorochi, K. Ueda, M. Ueda, Tomoko Sasaki, S. Schiff, J. Oakes","doi":"10.1159/000120460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000120460","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77766,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric neuroscience","volume":"15 3 1","pages":"139-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000120460","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64580749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C Balsubramaniam, J Laurent, E Rouah, D Armstrong, N Feldstein, S Schneider, W Cheek
{"title":"Congenital arachnoid cysts in children.","authors":"C Balsubramaniam, J Laurent, E Rouah, D Armstrong, N Feldstein, S Schneider, W Cheek","doi":"10.1159/000120473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000120473","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Congenital arachnoid cysts (CAC) are benign developmental disorders. A number of theories have been proposed to explain the origin and progression to the symptomatic stage. Management strategies range from not treating the asymptomatic cysts to craniotomy, excision of cyst wall and establishment of a communication with the adjacent subarachnoid cistern or ventricle. Other lesions may resemble CAC, and can be differentiated from CAC only by a critical review of the biopsy specimen. We have reviewed our experience with true CAC and similar lesions. Based on our experience we recommended craniotomy, excision of cyst wall and establishment of a communication with an adjacent subarachnoid cistern or ventricle as the primary procedure.</p>","PeriodicalId":77766,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric neuroscience","volume":"15 5","pages":"223-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000120473","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13633566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of epidural morphine for control of postoperative pain in selective dorsal rhizotomy for spasticity.","authors":"M L Sparkes, A S Klein, A C Duhaime, J P Mickle","doi":"10.1159/000120474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000120474","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Postoperative pain control can be a major problem after selective dorsal rhizotomy for the treatment of spasticity. We report the use of epidural morphine delivered via a catheter placed at surgery for postoperative analgesia in 28 consecutive patients undergoing this procedure. Pain was well controlled using this technique, and no patients required concomitant parenteral analgesia. There were no instances of respiratory depression, wound infection, or central nervous system depression, and the patients were easily mobilized in the early postoperative period. Epidural morphine is concluded to be a safe and very efficacious method of analgesia after selective dorsal rhizotomy.</p>","PeriodicalId":77766,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric neuroscience","volume":"15 5","pages":"229-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000120474","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13633567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone and transient hypertension associated with Guillain-Barré syndrome.","authors":"K Kaneko, T Shioya, K Yabuta","doi":"10.1159/000120477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000120477","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A rare case with Guillain-Barré syndrome complicated by inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) and hypertension was reported. This case showed clinically mild symptoms without respiratory muscle paralysis and had a complete neurological recovery. It should, therefore, be considered that the Guillain-Barré syndrome may cause SIADH and hypertension independent of the severity of the disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":77766,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric neuroscience","volume":"15 5","pages":"257-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000120477","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13633570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}