Management of child optic pathway gliomas: new therapeutical option.
Childs Nerv Syst
; 22(7): 679-84, 2006 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To present our experience in the treatment of child optic pathway gliomas in the last 25 years. MATERIAL ANDMETHODS:
Seventeen children under 10 years of age have been analyzed and assessed from clinic, ophthalmologic, endocrinologic, neurological, neuropathologic, and imaginologic points of view.RESULTS:
Predominance of female patients, 10 girls and 7 boys between 6 and 122 months old; mean age was 3 years and 8 months. The most frequent symptoms have been ophthalmologic and visual alterations in all 17 patients, endocrine alterations in 10, and neurological signs in 6. One of the patients presented neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), another patient had Down syndrome. Diagnosed using computed tomography or/and magnetic resonance imaging, histological studies showed pilocytic astrocytomas in 13 cases and a fibrillary astrocytoma grade II in 1 case. There were three patients without histological diagnosis; one of them had NF1. The treatment consisted of surgery, external beam radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and brachytherapy with iodine 125, separately or combined. Five patients died; the causes were secondary tumors in two children, tumor recurrence in one, sepsis secondary to respiratory and urinary tract infections in the child with Down syndrome, and finally, hydrocephaly due to hyperproteinorachia of tumor origin in one. Average survival was 89 months.CONCLUSION:
Chemotherapy and brachytherapy are therapeutic methods to be considered, especially in children under 5. Marsupialization of the residual cyst into the ventricular system postradio or oncolytic treatment through endoscopic or stereotactic techniques is useful in the treatment of endocranial hypertension and/or hypothalamic compression in these patients.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Neoplasias do Nervo Óptico
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Glioma do Nervo Óptico
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Glioma
Limite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Childs Nerv Syst
Assunto da revista:
NEUROLOGIA
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PEDIATRIA
Ano de publicação:
2006
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Argentina