Los meningiomas son tumores frecuentes en el adulto, pero de rara aparición en el período infantil de la vida. Se presentan cuatro casos de meningiomas infantiles en pacientes en edades comprendidas entre cinco y doce años de los que se analizan las características clínicas, radiológicas e histológicas. Como datos más sobresalientes en nuestros casos cabe destacar la afectación similar en ambos sexos, la evolución clínica más corta que en la edad adulta, el predominio de la localización intraventricular, el alto índice de formas histológicamente agresivas (variedad papilar), las características TAC similares en ambas tumoraciones papilares y el gran tamaño de la tumoración.
Meningiomas are tumours that appear frequently in adults but rarely found in children. We present here four cases of meningiomas in children 5–12 years old. This work analyzes the clinical, radiological and histological characteristics of these tumours. In our study we observed that there were no differences in tumours of either sex; that they had a shorter clinical evolution in comparison with adult tumours; there was a predominance of intraventricular localization; they had a high proportion of histological aggresive forms of the papilar variety; that similar CT scan characteristics occur in both the papilar tumorations and their size were great, relative to adults.
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