Intracranial hemangioblastomas in children: Clinical-radiological characteristics, microsurgical strategy, and long-term outcomes in a 10-year single-center cohort
Qishuai Yu, Desheng Kong, Liang Zhang · 2026
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Qishuai Yu, Desheng Kong, and Liang Zhang review ten years of brain tumor surgery in children at one center. The tumors, called hemangioblastomas, are vanishingly rare in children, and half of their 33 young patients carried an inherited condition that grows tumors in many organs. Headache, vomiting, and unsteady walking were the commonest complaints, and most tumors sat in the cerebellum with the classic look of a cyst around a bright nodule.
Surgeons removed the tumors fully in nearly 95 percent of lesions. Every return of disease happened in the inherited group, whose five-year freedom from progression was about 73 percent against 88 percent overall. The authors set out the features and surgical strategy that shaped these results.
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| CREATOR | Qishuai Yu, Desheng Kong, Liang Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |