Medulloblastoma Cerebelli

SINCE the first description of medulloblastoma cerebelli was published by Bailey and Cushing1 in 1925, this rapidly growing tumor of the cerebellum has been recognized as occurring most often in children and leading to the abrupt onset of increased intracranial pressure and cerebellar dysfunction. Evidence has accumulated, however, that this typical syndrome is not always found in patients with medulloblastoma cerebelli and also that certain other tumors of the cerebellum give clinical symptoms indistinguishable from those of medulloblastoma. It is well known that medulloblastomas are much more successfully treated by irradiation than by radical extirpation. The place of surgery in . . .