CNS infection in children with brain tumors: adding ventriculostomy to brain tumor resection increases risk more than 20-fold.

Anna Boethun Nadja Hawwa Vissing René Mathiasen Jane Skjøth-Rasmussen Jon Foss-Skiftesvik

Published in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2022)

CNS infections affect at least 12% of children with brain tumors and are associated with age, tumor location, and grade. Adding EVD to tumor surgery increases the risk of postoperative CNS infection, and reconsidering routine adjunct EVD placement is therefore advocated.

Keyphrases

blood brain barrier
young adults
minimally invasive
patients undergoing
coronary artery bypass
clinical practice
atrial fibrillation