[Diagnostic problems of spinal tumors in childhood and adolescence]

In evaluation of the clinical-neurological symptoms of 59 children and juveniles with spinal space occupations, 43 of whom were operated on, the differential-diagnostic particularities especially with respect to the early symptoms are discussed. On the basis of representations of individual cases, the importance of metrizamide myelography and spinal computer tomography for the pre-operative diagnosis is pointed out.