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References for Medulloblastomas in Children

This page was last updated on August 19th, 2022

  1. Albright AL, Wisoff JH, Zeltzer PM, et al: Effects of medulloblastoma resections on outcome in children: a report from the Children’s Cancer Group. Neurosurgery 38:265-271, 1996
  2. Bailey CC, Gnekow A, Wellek S, et al: Prospective randomised trial of chemotherapy given before radiotherapy in childhood medulloblastoma. International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) and the (German) Society of Paediatric Oncology (GPO): SIOP II. Med Pediatr Oncol 25:166-178, 1995
  3. Chatty EM, Earle KM: Medulloblastoma. A report of 201 cases with emphasis on the relationship of histologic variants to survival. Cancer 28:977-983, 1971
  4. Dunkel IJ, Boyett JM, Yates A, et al: High-dose carboplatin, thiotepa, and etoposide with autologous stem-cell rescue for patients with recurrent medulloblastoma. Children’s Cancer Group. J Clin Oncol 16:222-228, 1998
  5. Evans DG, Farndon PA, Burnell LD, et al: The incidence of Gorlin syndrome in 173 consecutive cases of medulloblastoma. Br J Cancer 64:959-961, 1991
  6. Fritsch MJ, Doerner L, Kienke S, et al: Hydrocephalus in children with posterior fossa tumors: role of endoscopic third ventriculostomy. J Neurosurg 103:40-42, 2005.
  7. Halberg FE, Wara WM, Fippin LF, et al: Low-dose craniospinal radiation therapy for medulloblastoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 20:651-654, 1991
  8. Hershatter BW, Halperin EC, Cox EB: Medulloblastoma: the Duke University Medical Center experience. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 12:1771-1777, 1986
  9. Johnson DL, McCabe MA, Nicholson HS, et al: Quality of long-term survival in young children with medulloblastoma. J Neurosurg 80:1004-1010, 1994
  10. Kimmings E, Kleinlugtebeld AT, Casey A, et al: Medulloblastoma: factors influencing the educational potential of surviving children. Br J Neurosurg 9:611-617, 1995
  11. Lee M, Wisoff JH, Abbott R, et al: Management of hydrocephalus in children with medulloblastoma: prognostic factors for shunting. Pediatr Neurosurg 20:240-247, 1994
  12. Louis DN, Ohgaki H, Wiestler OD, et al (eds): WHO Classification of Tumours of the Central Nervous System. Lyon: IARC Press, 2007, pp 132-136
  13. Maher CO, Friedman JA, Raffel C: Posterior fossa tumors in children, in Batjer HH, Loftus CM (eds): Textook of Neurological Surgery:  Principles and Practice. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003, p 985
  14. Meyers SP, Kemp SS, Tarr RW: MR imaging features of medulloblastomas. AJR Am J Roentgenol 158:859-865, 1992
  15. Muraszko KM, Brahma B, Orringer D: Medulloblastomas, in Albright AL, Pollack IF, Adelson PD (eds): Principles and Practice of Pediatric Neurosurgery. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., 2008, pp 605-607
  16. Ogilvy-Stuart AL, Clayton PE, Shalet SM: Cranial irradiation and early puberty. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 78:1282-1286, 1994
  17. Packer RJ, Cogen P, Vezina G, et al: Medulloblastoma: clinical and biologic aspects. Neuro Oncol 1:232-250, 1999
  18. Pollack IF: Pediatric brain tumors. Semin Surg Oncol 16:73-90, 1999
  19. Roberts RO, Lynch CF, Jones MP, et al: Medulloblastoma: a population-based study of 532 cases. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 50:134-144, 1991
  20. Rutka JT, Kuo JS: Pediatric surgical neuro-oncology: current best care practices and strategies. J Neurooncol 69:139-150, 2004
  21. Rutkowski S, Bode U, Deinlein F, et al: Treatment of early childhood medulloblastoma by postoperative chemotherapy alone. N Engl J Med 352:978-986, 2005
  22. Sainte-Rose C, Cinalli G, Roux FE, et al: Management of hydrocephalus in pediatric patients with posterior fossa tumors: the role of endoscopic third ventriculostomy. J Neurosurg 95:791-797, 2001
  23. Evans AE, Jenkin RD, Sposto R, et al: The treatment of medulloblastoma: results of a prospective randomized trial of radiation therapy with and without CCNU, vincristine, and prednisone. J Neurosurg 72:573-582, 1990
  24. Steinbok P, Cochrane DD, Perrin R, et al: Mutism after posterior fossa tumour resection in children: incomplete recovery on long-term follow-up. Pediatr Neurosurg 39:179-183, 2003
  25. Taylor MD, Sanford RA, Boop FA: Cerebellar pilocytic astrocytomas, in Albright AL, Pollack IF, Adelson PD (eds): Principles and Practice of Pediatric Neurosurgery. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., 2008, pp 655-666
  26. Woo C, Stea B, Lulu B, et al: The use of stereotactic radiosurgical boost in the treatment of medulloblastomas. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 37:761-764, 1997
  27. Northcott PA, Korshunov A, Witt H, et al: Medulloblastoma comprises four distinct molecular variants.  J Clin Oncology 29: 1408-1414, 2010
  28. Rutka JT, Hoffman HH: Medulloblastoma: A historical perspective and overview. J Neuro-Oncology 29: 1-7, 1996
  29. Patterson R, Farr RF: Cerebellar medulloblastomas: Treatment by irradiation of the whole central nervous system. Acta Radiol 39: 323-336, 1953

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