Intracranial sarcoma in childhood.

Three cases of intracranial sarcomas in children are presented. The children were 1 month, 8 months and 7.5 years old. In two cases the tumor was in the cerebral hemisphere and in one case (the 7.5-year-old child) in the cerebellum. The histopathological diagnosis was undifferentiated sarcoma and spindle cell sarcoma in the cases with tumor in the cerebral hemisphere and arachnoidal sarcoma of the cerebellum. There was one postoperative death. The two children subjected to postoperative X-ray therapy and cytostatic therapy survived 1.75 years and 7 months, respectively.