[Evaluation of the results of surgery of intracranial supratentorial tumors in 363 children over the past 50 years (1948-1997)].

At the Department of Neurosurgery, Hradec Králové, in the course of 50 years (1948-1997) 363 children, 199 boys and 164 girls (1.2:1) aged under 18 years were operated on for intracranial supratentorial tumours. The average age in children at the time of first operation was 9.

Choroid plexus cyst of the left lateral ventricle with intermittent blockage of the foramen of Monro, and initial invagination into the III ventricle in a child.

A cyst of the choroid plexus of the left lateral ventricle with intermittent blockage of the foramen of Monro and initially with invagination of the III ventricle in a child is described. In a 6-week-old boy a ventriculoatrial shunt was implanted for correction of an active asymmetrical hydrocephalus of unknown origin. When he was 3 months of age a water-soluble contrast CT ventriculography revealed a noncolloid cyst localised predominantly in the upper portion of the III ventricle.

[Does juvenile autism have a morphologic basis?].

In the world literature findings of morphological abnormalities in the area of the brain and cerebellum in children with pervasive developmental disorders are encountered. The authors of the present article describe in three case-records morphological abnormalities of the brain and cerebellum found in subjects with markedly expressed or only indicated signs of child autism. At the same time they draw attention to the possible determination of experience and behaviour of subjects with discrete morphological abnormalities, even when the pervasive developmental disorder was not diagnosed but where specific determination of premorbid experience and behaviour, as well as the clinical picture of a possible mental disorder or disease.

Mature sacrococcygeal teratoma containing the lower half of a human body.

Twins were diagnosed by ultrasound in a 29-year-old woman. The cesarean delivery revealed at first a mature girl with a large benign sacrococcygeal teratoma and then a healthy boy. X-ray and CT examinations of the teratoma showed pelvic and lower limb bones.

[Computer tomography of the brain in children. II].

The second part of the study "Computerized tomography of the brain in children" is a continuation of the first one published in Supplement for the Collection of Scientific Works by Charles University's Medical Faculty in Hradec Králové from 1990. The former is issued from analyzing 1283 pathological CT findings investigated in newborns and children up to 15 years of age. The present study is concerned with not only the precise diagnosis of the lesion site but also with the type diagnosis and observation of further development of either affected or operated on children brain.

[Computer tomography of the brain in children. I. 1. Perinatal encephalopathy of vascular origin. 2. Congenital brain malformations].

CT findings are evaluated in 103 children with vascular lesions (aged up to 15 years), and in 59 children with congenital cerebral and cerebellar malformations. Their maximum has been stated to occur perinatally due to hypoxic and ischemic brain affections. Therefore most of diagnostical problems were related to the differentiation of hypodense immature brain from ischemic changes.

Congenital dermoid cysts over the anterior fontanel. Report on 13 cases in Czechoslovak children.

The authors report on 13 cases of dermoid cysts over the anterior fontanelle in Czechoslovak children. These children were 2-19 months of age; with a male-to-female ratio of 2:1. The cyst sizes ranged from 10 to 30 mm.

Melanotic neuroectodermal neurocranial tumor of infancy of extra-intra-and subdural right temporal location: CT examination, surgical treatment, literature review.

A melanotic neuroectodermal neurocranial tumor of infancy of extra-intra-subdural right temporal location, examined by CT and successfully operated in a 33-month-old boy is reported in context with the literature. Out of 30 cases (including our case) of melanotic neuroectodermal neurocranial and intracranial tumors (MNNIT) 18 were located in the neurocranium (MNNT) and 12 intracranially, i.e.