Volume : 5, Issue : 7, July - 2016

A STUDY OF INTRACRANIAL SPACE OCCUPYING LESIONS IN CHILDREN

Dr. Rashmi Thanvi, Dr. Bhanu R. Desai, Dr. Krina D. Patel

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;Objective: To study incidence, etiology, clinical presentation, effect of intervention in disease outcome of Intracranial Space Occupying Lesions in children. Method: This prospective observational study was conducted in GMERS Medical College,Sola during the period January 2011 to January 2016 in the department of paediatrics, of age group 0-12 years, clinically suspected to have ICSOL(intracranial space occupying lesion) and confirmed by radiology. Results: The present study shows that the incidence of intracranial space occupying lesion in children is 0.57%. Out of 72 patients 58.33% were males and 41.66% were females. The highest incidence of intracranial space occupying lesion was in the age group 5-12 years(62.5%). Of all the SOL 69.4% patients had supratentorial lesions while 18 % had infratentorial lesions and 12.5% had multiple lesions involving both the regions. Seizures(77.77%) ,fever(44.44%) and vomiting(38.88%) were the most common clinical presentation. Tuberculoma(31.94%) was the most common ICSOL. Tumor was in only 25 % of cases with Glioma(12.5%) being the most common tumor. Conclusion: With recent advances in neuroimaging techniques, ,diagnosis of ICSOL has become easier. This gives hope of easy and accurate diagnosis to initiate prompt management.</p>