[Immediate and remote results of surgical treatment of intramedullary astrocytoma and ependymoma of the spinal cord].

In the Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Academy in Lódź 219 patients were operated on the years 1948-1982 for intraspinal tumours, 39 of which were situated within the spinal cord. Excluding 9 cases of tumours situated in the lumbar or lumbosacral areas in the remaining 30 cases 11 astrocytomas, 11 ependymomas, 3 malignant gliomas, and 1 case each of teratoma, sarcoma, carcinoma, neurinoma and ganglioblastoma were found. Only the groups of astrocytomas and ependymomas were analyzed with respect to the clinical state of the patients and early and late results considering them as sufficiently large.