Congenital ascites is rare, but when it occurs, urinary ascites secondary to posterior urethral valve obstruction is the most common, and tumors are the least. Among the tumors in the pediatric population, the central nervous system tumors are common, but spinal cord tumors are rare. We describe a very rare case of congenital malignant spinal cord glioma presenting as isolated congenital ascite...

Spinal cord injury is a devastating chronic condition resulting in temporary or permanent motor,sensory or autonomic dysfunction of the cord. The manifestation of spinal cord injury based onthe severity and involved areas could be different. Numerous studies have demonstrated thatbradycardia, hypotension, and orthostatic hypotension are present insignificant number ofpat...

Background: Metastasis of systemic neoplasms to the spine is common; however, metastasis primary spinal cord tumors other regions in body an infrequent occurrence. A few case reports have described tumors, and most cases, patients were younger than 30 years age. Case Description: We present illustrative a 47-year-old female with metastatic lesions lumbosacral vertebrae after initial diagnosis i...

a 60-year-old patient with testicular seminoma was referred for f-18 fdg pet/ct study to evaluate recurrence. in addition to hypermetabolic cervical, mediastinal and hilar lymph node tumoral metastases, segmental intense fdg uptake along the lumbar spinal cord suggestive of tumoral metastasis was noted which quite an unusual presentation is.  at the time of pet study the patient was symptomless...

treatment of spinal cord injury by exogenous cells has brought both successful and unsuccessful results. olfactory ensheathing cells and schwann cells have been widely used for transplantation purposes. in this study, we investigated the effects of these cells on contused spinal cord by introducing cells into subarachnoid space. fifty thousand schwann cells or olfactory ensheathing cells or a m...

objective: spinal cord injury (sci) causes inflammation, deformity and cell loss. it has been shown that melissa officinalis (mo), as herbal medicine, and dexamethasone (dex) are useful in the prevention of various neurological diseases. the present study evaluated combinational effects of dex and mo on spinal cord injury. materials and methods: thirty six adult male wistar rats were used in th...

how to cite this article: aghayan golkashani h, hatami h, farzan a, mohammadi hr, nilipour y, khoddami m, jadali f. tumors of the central nervous system: an 18-year retrospective review in a tertiary pediatric referral center. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):24-33.   abstract objective few studies exist on the demographics and trends of pediatric central nervous system (cns) tumors in ira...

BACKGROUND Although primary spinal cord tumors (PSCTs) comprise a minority of primary central nervous system tumors, they often impose a great deal of morbidity on their victims. Few epidemiologic studies have addressed PSCTs in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS We analyzed the demographic/clinical features of all primary intraspinal tumors (with a specific focus on primary intradural spinal cord t...

OBJECTIVE A spinal cord subependymoma is an uncommon, indolent, benign spinal cord tumor. It is radiologically similar to a spinal cord ependymoma, but surgical findings and outcomes differ. Gross total resection of the tumor is not always feasible. The present study was done to determine the clinical, radiological and pathological characteristics of spinal cord subependymomas. METHODS We ret...