“…As most pediatric brain tumors they commonly present with symptoms of increased intracranial pressure or parenchymal compression, including failure to thrive (lack of appropriate weight gain), developmental delay, impaired consciousness, nausea, vomiting, irritability, headache, etc. In case of a cerebellar tumor location, gait abnormalities, ataxia, dysmetria and nystagmus belong to the common clinical signs (Gol et al, 1959;Pencalet et al, 1999). Chiasmatic-hypothalamic PAs typically lead to visual loss or visualfield deficit, hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction, as well as symptoms secondary to hydrocephalus (Burger et al, 2000b).…”