Insight about the characteristics and surgical resectability of adult pilocytic astrocytoma: tertiary center experience.

Adult pilocytic astrocytoma is a rare tumor. We aim to contribute to understanding its clinical course and prognosis. We searched our database for patients older than 18 years with pathology-proven pilocytic astrocytoma.

Adult Pilocytic Astrocytoma in the insula: Case report and review of the literature.

Introduction: and Importance: Adult Pilocytic Astrocytomas (APA) are infrequent low grade tumors. While supratentorial APA is considered rare, insular APA is extremely rare.

Case Presentation: We present a case of pure insular APA along with surgical outcomes.

Delving Inside the Enigmatic Central Neurocytoma: Electronic Hospital Database Retrieval.

Introduction: Central neurocytomas (CNCs) appear as a rare benign intraventricular lesions involving <0.5% of primary brain tumors. There are no consensus guidelines for the optimal management strategy, so that this entity still enigmatic.

Review of management and morbidity of pediatric craniopharyngioma patients in a low-middle-income country: a 12-year experience.

Background: Management of craniopharyngioma in children is challenging, and their quality of life can be significantly affected. Series describing this from low-middle income countries (LMIC) are few.

Patients And Methods: The study provides a retrospective chart review of pediatric patients <18 years old, diagnosed with craniopharyngioma between 2003 and 2014, and treated at King Hussein Cancer Center, Jordan.

Closing the survival gap: implementation of medulloblastoma protocols in a low-income country through a twinning program.

Successful twinning initiatives have been reported in childhood leukemia. Pediatric neuro-oncology requires a complex multidisciplinary approach and the feasibility of similar twinning programs is unknown. Twinning between King Hussein Cancer Center in Amman and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto started with e-mail communications, and subsequently included monthly videoconferences and exchanges between institutions.