Gracelyn’s tumor grew in the posterior fossa area. Headaches sometimes can indicate a brain tumor. But Shimony urges caution in assuming that a child's headache means they have a brain tumor.

Retrosigmoid craniotomy is a surgical approach that can treat brain tumors, lesions, and other health conditions that affect the posterior fossa, an area at the back of the skull. Approaches like ...

tumors, or an ectatic posterior inferior cerebellar artery. Although a congenitally small posterior fossa is the most common cause of cerebellar tonsillar herniation, acquired cerebellar descent ...

A person may have this surgery if they have a tumor or another issue affecting ... Surgeons do this to access a part of the skull called the posterior fossa, which contains structures such as ...

According to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, posterior fossa syndrome—also called cerebellar mutism—is "a condition that sometimes develops after surgery to remove a brain tumor in the ...

2-4 Panel A (top portion) shows the relevant microanatomy of the posterior fossa. Panel A (bottom portion) and Panel B show the effect of tumor growth on adjacent cranial nerves (CN), the brain ...

The largest cause of death from cancer in children are brain tumors in a particular part of the brain, called the posterior fossa. However, within this area, there are three main types of brain ...

Supratentorial tumors were evaluated for RELA fusion; infratentorial tumors, for chromosome 1q gain. Classification of posterior fossa groups A and B was made by methylation profiles. The EFS for ...