[Brain tumors in infants].

1975-87 there were 15 infants in the Childrens University Hospital of Zürich, cared for a brain tumor. In 3 cases the first symptoms were already present by birth. In our cases epileptic convulsions were the most common first manifestation of the tumor (40%). In most cases neither clinical symptoms nor EEG changes helped to localize the tumor. In one third of the cases the tumor was manifested with symptoms of increased intracranial pressure. In 11 children (73%) the tumor was localized supratentorially, in 3 cases in the cerebellum, in one case in the brainstem. 13 children were operated, without perioperative mortality. In 10 cases the tumor was radically extirpated, in 3 cases only a subtotal excision of the tumor was possible.