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Current Surgical Management

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For the majority of brain tumors in children, the extent of resection is the most important factor predicting long-term outcome. This conclusion has led many neurosurgeons to be as aggressive as possible during the initial surgical procedure in an effort to achieve gross total resection (GTR; Pollack 1999; Albright et al. 2000). It should be recognized that GTR is not the primary goal for tumors where sensitivity to adjuvant therapy is high (e.g., germinoma), or where there is clear extension into eloquent regions (e.g., brainstem and thalamic glioma). Fortunately, these latter groups represent a minority of pediatric brain tumors (Pollack 1994).

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Departments of Neurological Surgery and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, USA

    Nalin Gupta MD, PhD (Assistant Professor, Chief) (Assistant Professor, Chief)

  2. Division of Neuro-Oncology, Departments of Neurological Surgery and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, USA

    Anuradha Banerjee MD, MPH (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

  3. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, USA

    Daphne Haas-Kogan MD (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Gupta, N., Perry, V., Berger, M.S. (2004). Current Surgical Management. In: Gupta, N., Banerjee, A., Haas-Kogan, D. (eds) Pediatric CNS Tumors. Pediatric Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09227-9_14

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