[…] may be present; If CN VII is affected, facial paresis may be present. [slideplayer.com]

Here we report eight consecutive patients with intracranial neoplasm at different ages clinically presenting with acute esotropia. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

In contrast to patients with suprasellar craniopharyngiomas, generally presenting with headache and visual disturbance, patients with infrasellar craniopharyngiomas present usually only with nasal obstruction like in the present case. [diagnosticpathology.biomedcentral.com]

• Pathologist

  Disadvantages include the lack of tissue available to send to a pathologist for diagnosis and brain swelling that can occur after the radiation therapy. [emedicinehealth.com]

  Authors’ contributions SSS is a lecturer and consultant pathologist who performed the literature search and prepared the manuscript. OOO extracted the data from the records. [panafrican-med-journal.com]

  In addition, the same tumors sometimes have different names; even pathologists are not always consistent in what they call them. [braintumor.org]

  Metastatic tumours Metastatic tumours are responsible for 15% of brain tumours in clinical series, but up to 30% of brain tumours reported by pathologists. [surgwiki.com]

  If the patient is aphasic or develops dysphagia, a speech pathologist must be consulted. Depression is common, and psychological consultation for behavioral or drug therapies may be helpful. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

• Hypertension

  Masses adjacent to the skull or dura mater tend to be more associated with ipsilateral headaches but intracranial hypertension produces a more diffuse headache. [ichd-3.org]

  Intracranial hypertension was more common in posterior fossa tumors (83.8%) than in ST tumors (49.3%). [karger.com]

  With differential diagnosis of migraine, infection (meningitis, sinusitis, etc.), hemorrhage (as a result of aneurysm, hypertension, preeclampsia, HELLP syndrome, incidental) and any cause of increase in intracranial pressure she was internalized. [ispub.com]

  Glucose tolerance is impaired and hypertension occurs. Laboratory investigations are vital to confirm the diagnosis. [surgwiki.com]

• Confusion

  Convulsions and seizures Dizziness or loss of balance Vomiting or nausea Difficulty in speaking and thinking Vision changes Hearing changes Disorientation and confusion Personality changes Paralysis or weakness in one part or one side of the body Diagnosis [thebrainandspine.com]

  When the hypopituitarism is severe episodic confusion occurs and the patient will become drowsy. Pituitary apoplexy results from sudden spontaneous haemorrhage into the pituitary tumour. [surgwiki.com]

  If it becomes blocked, the symptoms are similar to that of the original condition of hydrocephalus and may include headaches, vomiting, visual problems and/or confusion or lethargy, among others. [aans.org]

  Sometimes people confuse brain aneurysms with brain tumors. Brain aneurysms are not tumors; they are areas in the brain arteries or veins that are abnormally weak and expand to form a ballooning or expansion of the vessel wall. [emedicinehealth.com]

  Rhabdoid Tumor Back to top Characteristics Rare Highly aggressive and tends to spread throughout the CNS Often appears in multiple sites in the body, especially the kidneys Difficult to classify; may be confused with medulloblastoma or PNETs Occurs most [braintumor.org]

• Convulsions

  Convulsions and seizures Dizziness or loss of balance Vomiting or nausea Difficulty in speaking and thinking Vision changes Hearing changes Disorientation and confusion Personality changes Paralysis or weakness in one part or one side of the body Diagnosis [thebrainandspine.com]

  At day 3, generalized convulsions were observed again. Electroencephalography did not show status epilepticus. Carbamazepine 200 mg three times a day was administered and phenytoin and mannitol were decreased gradually and stopped. [ispub.com]

  A tumor may cause convulsions. Changes in personality or mental ability are rare in cases of brain tumor. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

  Approximately one third of patients with IT and MC tumors displayed ataxia; however, ataxia was remarkably rare in patients with ST tumors, in whom weakness and convulsions were more common. [karger.com]

• Neck Stiffness

  MENINGISMUS Blood in the subarachnoid CSF will cause the features of meningismus (headache, neck stiffness, photophobia and fever or vomiting). [surgwiki.com]

• Aura

  Anosmia if tumor is at base of lobe Astrocytoma Glioblastoma Oligodendroglioma Hypothalamus Eating and drinking disorders (eg, polydipsia), precocious puberty (especially in boys), hypothermia Astrocytoma Occipital lobe Generalized seizures with visual aura [merckmanuals.com]

[…] include incompatibility with certain medical equipment, longer imaging times (increased risk of motion artifact), and poor visualization of the subarachnoid space Neither CT nor MRI can be used to differentiate tumor recurrence from radionecrosis See Workup [emedicine.medscape.com]

Any adult who has a recent onset of seizures, particularly focal seizures, is considered a tumor suspect until adequate neurologic workup proves otherwise. Specific Tumor Types There are many types of tumors that develop intracranially. [dartmouth.edu]

Successful Vemurafenib Treatment of Progressive BRAF V600E–Mutated Anaplastic Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma Editor’s note: Oncologists sometimes suggest a treatment based on specific mutations found in a patient’s tumor. [cancercommons.org]

Treatment options icon plus At HCA UK we provide a wide range of specialist and advanced treatments. Your consultant will discuss your diagnosis and treatment options with you in detail and help you make an informed decision about your care. [newmaldendiagnostics.co.uk]

Surgery is the standard treatment. [braintumor.org]

However, in order to achieve tumor control, multiple PDT treatments, such as hyper fractionation or metronomic delivery, are required, where the frequency and duration of the treatment are determined by the levels of apoptosis achieved in relationship [osapublishing.org]

Treatment for ependymomas is usually surgery, which can be curative in many cases. In other cases, radiotherapy may be necessary for additional treatment. [montefiore.org]

There is a high degree of correlation between what the histology shows and the prognosis. [oncolex.org]

Patient prognosis and survival was best predicted by tumor histology. Treatment response and outcome did not appear to be influenced by HIV infection. Only the leiomyosarcoma demonstrated evidence of latent EBV infection. [neurology.org]

The prognosis of extracranial meningioma is always good if the excision is complete [ 7 ]. [diagnosticpathology.biomedcentral.com]

Certain mutations provide better prognosis than others. IDH1 and IDH2 mutations in gliomas, as well as deletion of chromosome arms 1p and 19q, generally indicate better prognosis. [en.wikipedia.org]

The tomographic study the optic nerve, combined with visual evoked potentials, may be a good co adjuvant in the decision of the appropriate therapeutic approach to benign intracranial masses and in determining the visual prognosis of patients with this [austinpublishinggroup.com]

Wegener granulomatosis - Autoimmune etiology and clinical course. Diabetes - disease and management information, including diagnosis, typical treatment plans and diabetes supplies. [netdoc.com]

Brain abscesses: etiologic categorization with in vivo proton MR spectroscopy. Radiology 2004;230:519-27. [ Crossref ] [ PubMed ] Chang SC, Lai PH, Chen WL, et al. [jxym.amegroups.com]

In some instances, however, the symptoms are specific to the etiology. Hemorrhage, which can be parenchymal or extra-axial is the most common cause of intracranial mass lesions and is discussed in Chapter 27. [dartmouth.edu]

Wilms' tumor a rapidly developing malignant mixed tumor of the kidneys, made up of embryonal elements, occurring chiefly in children before the seventh year; a genetic component is suspected in its etiology. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

Rickert CH, Paulus W: Epidemiology of central nervous system tumors in childhood and adolescence based on the new WHO classification. Childs Nerv Syst 2001;17:503–511. Bleyer WA: Epidemiologic impact of children with brain tumors. [karger.com]

Epidemiology of primary brain tumors: current concepts and review of the literature. Neuro-oncology 2002 ; 4 : 278 –299. [cambridge.org]

[…] from Altmetric.com epidemiology incidence elderly intracranial neoplasm Brain tumours are second only to stroke as the leading cause of death from neurological disease. [jnnp.bmj.com]

Although few studies had been done on the epidemiology of intracranial tumours in Nigeria and Africa as a whole, the objective of this paper is to provide an ample and detailed perspective on the epidemiological studies of intracranial tumour in a newly [panafrican-med-journal.com]

Epidemiology As a general rule, brain tumors increase in frequency with age, with individual exceptions (e.g. pilocytic astrocytoma, the vast majority of which are found in young patients), and a number of uncommon tumors found in infancy (see brain tumors [radiopaedia.org]

Pathophysiology Neurologic dysfunction may result from the following: Invasion and destruction of brain tissue by the tumor Direct compression of adjacent tissue by the tumor Increased intracranial pressure (because the tumor occupies space within the [merckmanuals.com]

[…] energy emitted by the GSM (2G) phones that were in use when epidemiological studies that observed a slight increase in the risk for glioma – a malignant type of brain cancer – among heavy users of wireless and cordless telephones were conducted. [3] Pathophysiology [en.wikipedia.org]

Conclusions Advanced MRI is an essential tool in the study of brain tumors, integrating anatomics informations provided by cMRI with biologic and pathophysiological data of these tumors. [jxym.amegroups.com]

The pathophysiology of radiation induced neurocognitive damage is complex and involves inter- and intracellular interactions between vasculature and parenchymal cells, particularly oligodendrocytes, which are important for myelination. [neoadjuvant.wikidot.com]

Maskless immobilization device may help to prevent movement of head during radiation therapy and immobilize patients with the same accuracy and reliability as the standard thermoplastic mask routinely used for patients receiving radiation therapy. [clinicaltrials.gov]

This review represents part of a series of papers written to consolidate information about these events and preventive measures as part of an ongoing effort to ascertain the utility of devising system-wide policies and safety tools to improve neurosurgical [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Prevention The cause of primary brain tumors has not been determined, so there is no known way to prevent them. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

Radiation can shrink the tumor or help prevent it from growing any larger. Radiation can also be used to kill cancer cells if the tumor is malignant. It may also be used on the parts of a tumor the surgeon was unable to remove. [webmd.com]

The most common cause in children is diffuse therapy given to prevent leukemia or to treat medulloblastoma. [merckmanuals.com]