John K
Abteilung für Kinderneuropsychiatrie, Universitätskinderklinik Jussuf Ibrahim (Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung) Jena.
Kinderarztl Prax. 1990 Mar;58(3):119-24.
Prognosis of brain tumors in children is altogether bad. For this reason it is necessary to diagnose brain tumors earlier as yet to improve the outcome. Symptoms of intracranial space occupying lesions are at first ambiguous: vomiting and headache, frequently associated with changes of behavior. Complaints of patients with brain tumors are multiple and progressive, in contradiction to patients suffering from spinal tumors showing only vague symptoms for a long time. Modern neuroimaging techniques such as sonography, computed tomography (CT) and nuclear magnetic resonance tomography (NMR) should be used early in patients with suspected symptoms.
儿童脑肿瘤的预后总体不佳。因此，有必要尽早诊断脑肿瘤以改善治疗结果。颅内占位性病变的症状起初并不明确：呕吐和头痛，常伴有行为改变。脑肿瘤患者的症状多样且呈进行性，这与脊髓肿瘤患者长期仅表现出模糊症状形成对比。对于有疑似症状的患者，应尽早使用现代神经影像学技术，如超声检查、计算机断层扫描（CT）和核磁共振断层扫描（NMR）。
