Cerebral tumours in children: A pathological report

Rapid advances in neurosurgery and recently acquired knowledge of the growth and spread of cerebral tumours based on their microscopical differentiation have given an impetus to the study of these tumours from divers aspects. The dictum that cerebral tumours are rare in children but are almost invariably malignant and inoperable has long been accepted. For this reason perhaps there have been few reports of late years from children's hospitals on the pathology of these tumours. With one or two exceptions the material recently presented on this subject has been derived from special neurological hospitals and clinics. New facts have emerged from some of these reports regarding the incidence and structure of cerebral tumours in children and a more hopeful note oIn prognosis has been sounded.