Table 7.

Summarizes the neurosurgical intervention and their outcome in children with incidentally discovered serious lesions

Ref.	Incidentally found serious findings	No. of patients	Surgical procedure performed	Outcome
Schwedt et al[8]	Chiari type I malformation	3	Surgical decompression	Headache relieved in 2 patients after surgery
Jordan et al[21]	Chiari I malformation with spinal cord syrinx	2	Surgical decompression	Neurologic stable
Perret et al[20]	Pilocystic astrocytoma	2	Primary subtotal resection	Stable disease
	Craniopharyngioma	1	Primary total resection	Complete remission
	Anaplastic ependymoma	1	Primary total resection, radio-chemotherapy	Complete remission
	Choroid plexus papilloma	1	Primary total resection	Complete remission
	Medulloblastoma	1	Delayed subtotal resection, radio-chemotherapy	Neurologic stable
	Fibrillary astrocytoma	1	Delayed total resection	Complete remission
	Mature teratoma	1	Delayed subtotal resection	Neurologic stable
	Desmoplastic ganglioglioma	1	Primary total resection	Complete remission
Mogensen et al[19]	Pilocytic astrocytoma	1	Hypophysectomy	Patients developed pan hypopituitarism after surgery
Yilmaz et al[5]	Medulloblastoma	1	Urgent surgery for space occupying lesion	Headache relieved after surgery

Incidental findings; Chiari I malformation studied by Seki et al[12], 2010 and temporal arachnoid cyst with mass effect and cerebellar venous malformation studied by Gupta et al[13], 2008 all three were referred to neurosurgery, but no information regarding outcomes were available.