Patients with brain tumors often have symptoms of increased intracranial pressure (headache, vomiting, papilledema) or other neurologic manifestations such as hemiplegia, seizures ...
70-75% of all brain tumors are primary tumor, there are many different origins (brain tissue, meninges, cranial nerves, blood vessels, pituitary ...). The rest were cases of secondary tumors caused by cancer spread to other places. Except for basal cell carcinoma of the skin, all types of cancer (especially bronchial and breast) are likely to spread to the brain.
Brain tumors are not rare diseases. In the U.S. in the 90s, each year nearly 400,000 cancer deaths, including 8,500 cases of primary tumor of the brain tissue.
The treatment of brain tumors will be more satisfactory if the patient is detected and treated early. Other common symptoms include :
Groups symptoms increased intracranial pressure
- Headache: usually diffuse, dull, aching more than in the early morning, when pain is often accompanied by nausea or vomiting. Analgesics are often only effective in the early stages. Later, symptoms of headache continued to grow, less pain medication is working.
- Vomiting: At first when only nausea headaches increased, later more frequently and may vomit. Vomiting often occurs in the morning, when the stomach is empty, with no warning; done after vomiting feeling less headache.
- Papilloedema sense: Do hemodynamic disorders (causes increased intracranial pressure is too high), the latter can lead to discharge, bleeding in the spine market and in the retina, diminishing vision. Want to diagnose papilloedema lamps ophthalmoscopy.
- Epilepsy: Due to the effects of high intracranial pressure.
- The mental disorders: patient becomes apathetic, apathy, memory decline. In advanced stages, patients become less alert, decreased sensation, may eventually go into a coma.
70-75% of all brain tumors are primary tumor, there are many different origins (brain tissue, meninges, cranial nerves, blood vessels, pituitary ...). The rest were cases of secondary tumors caused by cancer spread to other places. Except for basal cell carcinoma of the skin, all types of cancer (especially bronchial and breast) are likely to spread to the brain.
Brain tumors are not rare diseases. In the U.S. in the 90s, each year nearly 400,000 cancer deaths, including 8,500 cases of primary tumor of the brain tissue.
The treatment of brain tumors will be more satisfactory if the patient is detected and treated early. Other common symptoms include :
Groups symptoms increased intracranial pressure
- Headache: usually diffuse, dull, aching more than in the early morning, when pain is often accompanied by nausea or vomiting. Analgesics are often only effective in the early stages. Later, symptoms of headache continued to grow, less pain medication is working.
- Vomiting: At first when only nausea headaches increased, later more frequently and may vomit. Vomiting often occurs in the morning, when the stomach is empty, with no warning; done after vomiting feeling less headache.
- Papilloedema sense: Do hemodynamic disorders (causes increased intracranial pressure is too high), the latter can lead to discharge, bleeding in the spine market and in the retina, diminishing vision. Want to diagnose papilloedema lamps ophthalmoscopy.
- Epilepsy: Due to the effects of high intracranial pressure.
- The mental disorders: patient becomes apathetic, apathy, memory decline. In advanced stages, patients become less alert, decreased sensation, may eventually go into a coma.
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