Postoperative hydrocephalus management may cause delays in adjuvant treatment following paediatric posterior fossa tumour resection: a multicentre retrospective observational study.
Ido Ben-ZviGideon AdegboyegaSebastian M ToescuNoa SchwartzAmir KershenovichHelen ToledanoShalom MichowizKristian AquilinaPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2021)
CSF diversion procedures may cause a preventable delay in the initiation of adjuvant therapy. Early post-operative VP shunt insertion, rather than a 'wait and see policy' should be considered in order to reduce this delay.