Histologically, medulloblastomas often have a feature called Homer-Wright rosettes, which are dense tangles of neurons and neuroglial cells, surrounded by ring-like structures formed by tumors cells.
Now, while medulloblastoma may be the most common malignant tumor, the most common primary pediatric tumor is a type of astrocytoma called a juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma.
For example, as pinealomas, medulloblastomas, and ependymomas enlarge - the mass of the tumor can compress nearby ventricles blocking the flow of cerebrospinal fluid which causes swelling, called hydrocephalus.
Well, all that oxygen created a wave of free radicals that caused enormous oxidative stress, doing special damage to the cells that make myelin, the fatty insulation that covers nerve cells.