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ReviewChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2026

Surgical resection in medulloblastoma: a crossroads in the molecular era.

Joseph H McAbee, David G Laird, Amar Gajjar, David S Hersh, Nir Shimony, Kristian Aquilina, Paul Klimo

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Review in Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Joseph H McAbeeSurgical Neurology Branch, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
David G LairdCollege of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
Amar GajjarSt. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
David S HershDivision of Neurosurgery, Connecticut Children's, Hartford, CT, USA.
Nir ShimonySt. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Kristian AquilinaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK.
Paul KlimoSt. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA. pklimo@semmes-murphey.com.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Surgical resection for medulloblastoma has been a mainstay of treatment for decades due to the need for definitive diagnosis and known benefits on treatment efficacy and survival. While many pediatric neurosurgeons and neurooncologists agree that maximal safe surgical resection should be the goal of medulloblastoma surgery, actual practical application and benefits of maximal safe resection seem to vary. Early work on extent of resection provided a relatively arbitrary 1.5 cm

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Cerebellar NeoplasmsMedulloblastomaNeurosurgical ProceduresHumansExtent of resectionMedulloblastomaNear total resection

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PMID42418015
PMCPMC13346207

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