Childhood Cerebellar Astrocytoma

Benign and malignant astrocytomas that arise from astrocytes in the cerebellum. More than 80% of childhood cerebellar astrocytomas are pilocytic astrocytomas which have a favorable prognosis. The remainder are composed of diffuse or fibrillary subtypes with malignant astrocytomas occuring only rarely in the cerebellum during childhood. (NCI Thesaurus)

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