Surgery for a Low-Grade Thalamic Tumor in a 10-year-old Pediatric Patient

Thalamic tumors represent 1–5% of pediatric brain tumors, where according to histopathological and molecular classification of the tumor, we can divide them into low-grade tumors and high-grade tumors. These tumors have a poor prognosis; however, with current advances in medicine, many patients have achieved a survival of more than 5 years, depending on the prognosis of these patients in terms of the resectability of the lesion and the histopathological and molecular classification of the tumor. In this article, we present a brief review of thalamic tumors with a focus on the surgical approach, exemplifying our case where we demonstrated our surgical technique with favorable results. We can conclude that good management of this pathology depends on the type of tumor, resectability, and adequate follow-up of these patients by a multidisciplinary team that includes pediatric neurosurgeons, pediatric neuro-oncologists, neurophysiologists, neuropsychologists, physiotherapists, neuroradiologists, and radiation oncologists. Ethics committee approval was not required to perform the surgical procedure on the patient. The patient's parents provided informed consent for the surgery and gave verbal consent for the publication of their images and their surgery.