Abstract
Results: Among 62 patients, 43 (69.35%) were male and 38 (61.29%) patients were adult. The morphological distribution of the posterior cranial fossa tumors was as follows: Meningioma – 7 cases (11.2%), Schwannoma – 12 cases (19.3%), Acoustic Neuroma – 20 cases (32.25%), Medulloblastoma – 9 cases (14.5%), Pilocytic Astrocytoma – 2 cases (3.22%), high grade Astrocytoma – 3 cases (4.83%), Metastatic carcinoma – 5 cases (8.06%) and malignant round blue cell neoplasm – 4 cases (6.45%). Conclusion: Acoustic neuroma was the commonest benign tumor and medulloblastoma was found to be the predominant malignant tumor in this study. Medulloblastoma was also seen the commonest posterior cranial fossa tumor in children.
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