Pediatric spinal canal tumors

Intraspinal tumors include various tumor-like lesions that originate in different tissues within the spinal canal, such as the spinal cord, nerve roots, meninges, or vertebrae. The incidence of spinal tumors in children is significantly lower than intracranial tumors. Among them, meningiomas and neurofibromas are more common in children, and tumors of epithelial cysts and epidermoid cysts are more common in children In childhood. Spinal canal tumors can occur at any segment of the spine, and the clinical manifestations are mainly nerve root damage in the plane where the tumor is located and the symptoms and signs of long bundle involvement below this level.

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