Spread of blood in cerebrospinal fluid following craniotomy simulates spinal metastases.

Postoperative myelography with water-soluble contrast media was performed in 36 children with a diagnosis of posterior cranial fossa tumour. The myelograms were normal in 15. In 5 an intramedullary tumour was present and 3 of these had in addition subarachnoid changes as evidence of tumour spread.

A randomized study of chemotherapy with procarbazine, vincristine, and lomustine with and without radiation therapy for astrocytoma grades 3 and/or 4.

The authors undertook a controlled, prospective, randomized study of 171 patients with supratentorial astrocytoma grades 3 and/or 4 (classified according to Kernohan). All patients were given chemotherapy consisting of procarbazine, vincristine, and lomustine (CCNU) (PVC). Half of the patients received whole-brain irradiation (RT) to a dose of 5800 cGy in the tumor-bearing hemisphere and 5000 cGy in the contralateral hemisphere.

Volumes of chronic traumatic frontal brain lesions measured by MR imaging and CBF tomography.

The volumes (ml) of chronic traumatic frontal brain lesions were compared measured "morphologically" with MR imaging (T1 and T2 weighted images) and "functionally" with a tomographic rCBF technique (SPECT with 133Xe i.v.).

Reversible changes on computed tomography scans of the brain during induction therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children.

Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have been shown to develop changes on computed tomography (CT) scans of the brain. These changes are seen both during and after therapy. Some of the results have been contradictory.