Medulloblastoma differential diagnosis

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Haytham Allaham, M.D. [2]

Overview

Medulloblastoma must be differentiated from other diseases that cause morning headache, recurrent vomiting, nausea, restlessness, and poor feeding among children such as ependymoblastoma, cerebral neuroblastoma, and pineal tumor.[1]

Differentiating Medulloblastoma from other Diseases

  • Medulloblastoma must be differentiated from other diseases that cause morning headache, recurrent vomiting, nausea, restlessness, and poor feeding among children such as:[1][2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Types of childhood brain and spinal cord tumours> Canadian Cancer Society(2015) http://www.cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/cancer-type/brain-spinal-childhood/childhood-brain-and-spinal-tumours/types-of-tumours/?region=mb Accessed on September, 28th 2015
  2. Tabatabaei SM, Seddighi A, Seddighi AS. Posterior Fossa Tumor in Children. Iran. J. Child. Neurol 2012;6(2): 19-24.


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