Posterior Fossa Tumors and Intellectual Impairment

Abstract

The effect of cerebellar damage on intellectual function in 76 children treated surgically for malignant posterior fossa tumor was investigated at the Gustave Roussy Institute, Villejuif, and the Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Necker Hospital, Paris, France.

Keywords

• posterior fossa tumor
• postoperative cerebellar syndrome
• oculomotor deficits