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Acute Non-Traumatic Intracranial Bleedings. Posterior Fossa Tumors in Infancy pp 209–227Cite as

Tumors of the Posterior Cranial Fossa in Childhood: Role of Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy

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Although the infratentorial brain volume is only one tenth of that in the supratentorial region, some 55% of all intracranial tumors in children are found in the posterior cranial fossa (Table 1). This is in sharp contrast to the situation in adults where most tumors occur in the larger volume of the supratentorial region and only 10% arise in the posterior fossa.

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Bloom, H.J.G. (1983). Tumors of the Posterior Cranial Fossa in Childhood: Role of Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy. In: Jensen, HP., Brock, M., Klinger, M. (eds) Acute Non-Traumatic Intracranial Bleedings. Posterior Fossa Tumors in Infancy. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05589-2_33

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