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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2009 May 14;156(2):340–351. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.04.024

TABLE 2.

Distribution of Anatomic Sites and Presentation by Age

All ages
Age (y)
n % 0–2
3–9
10–19
20–29
30–39
40–49
50–59
60–69
70–79
80+
% % % % % % % % % %
Extra-cranial Spinal cord 958 39.8 1.2 4.8 21.4 43.6 54.0 63.9 55.0 48.0 52.6 51.9
Intracranial Supratentorial 910 37.8 56.7 64.7 54.7 36.7 27.5 21.8 27.9 28.1 28.1 44.4
Cortex 628 26.1 40.5 50.6 41.5 21.2 17.6 14.6 17.4 18.4 16.7 33.3
Ventricle 282 11.7 16.3 14.1 13.2 15.5 9.9 7.2 10.6 9.7 11.4 11.1
Infratentorial 530 22 42.1 29.7 23.9 18.9 18.2 13.8 16.5 23.5 19.3 3.7
Brain stem 384 15.9 26.6 20.4 16.2 15.9 15.5 9.8 12.6 18.9 11.4 0.0
Cerebellum 146 6.1 15.5 9.3 7.7 3.0 2.7 4.0 3.8 4.6 7.9 3.7
Other 10 0.4 0.0 0.7 0.0 0.8 0.3 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.0 0.0
Total 2408 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0