The Frequency of Pediatrics and Adult Brain Tumors: A Hospital-Based Study a Multi-center Study

Abstract

The frequency of brain tumors in both children and adults is shockingly high. The Multicenter Study pathology records from the Department of Neurosurgery lady reading hospital Peshawar, Pakistan, served as the data source for this investigation, January 2016 and February 2021 Patients as young as two years old and as elderly as 82 years old had biopsies of brain tumors performed between 2010 and 2014. Diagnostic, morphological, and immunohistochemical blunders were encountered often. Twenty-one individuals ranging in age from 2 to 14 were involved in the incidents (14-82 years). High-grade tumors occurred in almost 47% of adults and 33.3% of children. Benign tumors accounted for the vast majority of pediatric cancers (craniopharyngioma, choroid plexus papilloma, astrocytoma, medulloblastoma, ependymoma, and small round blue cell tumor). The most prevalent tumors in adults were astrocytoma (20%), meningioma (21%), pituitary adenoma (7%), and glioblastoma (1%). Other uncommon tumors accounted for 22% of the total. Finally, glioblastoma is the most frequent tumor in adults, whereas craniopharyngioma is the most common tumor in children. Both morphology and immunohistochemistry are useful in making an accurate diagnosis. Several brain tumors, including gliomas, craniopharyngiomas, and medulloblastomas, are rather common.