Intracranial tumors and West syndrome

Pediatr Neurol. 1989 Sep-Oct;5(5):327-9. doi: 10.1016/0887-8994(89)90029-5.

Abstract

Two infants, 6 and 7 months of age, are reported with both West syndrome and cerebral tumors. In both patients, initial neurologic examinations were normal and tumor diagnoses were determined through routine imaging studies. Initial response to adrenocorticotrophic hormone treatment did not differ from that observed in patients with cryptogenic West syndrome. Early treatment of West syndrome and resection of tumor, when possible, may offer successful treatment of patients with both benign brain tumors and West syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / therapeutic use
  • Brain Neoplasms / complications*
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery
  • Electroencephalography
  • Ependymoma / complications*
  • Ependymoma / diagnosis
  • Ependymoma / surgery
  • Female
  • Glioma / complications*
  • Glioma / diagnosis
  • Glioma / surgery
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Spasms, Infantile / complications*
  • Spasms, Infantile / drug therapy
  • Spasms, Infantile / physiopathology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Ultrasonography

Substances

  • Adrenocorticotropic Hormone