The current study reports a case of PNET in a 60-year-old female, which presented clinically as an intraspinal tumor, causing symptoms of lower back pain, numbness and pain in the right lower extremity. The patient underwent tumorectomy. Following primary therapy, the symptoms of spinal cord ...
Keep in mind that many symptoms, like headache or dizziness, occur with far less serious health issues. You may not have a brain tumor, but other symptoms (like new-onset seizures or vision problems) need to be diagnosed and treated right away. This is also true if you or a loved one ...
Keep in mind that many symptoms, like headache or dizziness, occur with far less serious health issues. You may not have a brain tumor, but other symptoms (like new-onset seizures or vision problems) need to be diagnosed and treated right away. This is also true if you or a loved one ...
Summary Symptoms Duration Call doctor Prognosis More info What is a brain tumor?A brain tumor is a mass of abnormally growing cells in the brain or skull. It can be benign (noncancerous) or malignant (cancerous). Unlike other cancers, a cancer arising from brain tissue (a primary brain ...
All symptoms improved after the operation. Infants who present with weakness of the lower legs, urinary incontinence and unknown abdominal pain should be evaluated for a spinal cord tumor. 展开 关键词:Keywords Spinal cord tumor Infant Diagnosis ...
Spinal cord tumors can cause: Numbness, weakness or loss of coordination in the arms and/or legs on one or both sides of the body Bladder or bowel control issues Depending on where a tumor is in the brain or spine, different symptoms can appear. These symptoms also can be signs of ...
Except for one case of meningioma, recurrent spinal cord tumors were associated either with incomplete excision at the primary operation or location in the cauda equina and these two factors seem to be predisposing to recurrence of the tumor. It is suggested that combining CT, metrizamide CT, ...
In subject area: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science Lymphoma is characterized by a rapidly enlarging painless neck mass, which may cause compressive symptoms and initially may be difficult to differentiate from anaplastic carcinoma on clinical appearance alone. ...
We report 17 patients who presented with symptoms mimicking those of brain (14 cases) or spinal cord (three cases) tumors. Computerized tomography or magnetic resonance imaging studies or both were interpreted as consistent with a tumor in each case. All patients underwent surgery, and all 17 ...
In adults, metastatic tumors to the spine occur more frequently than tumors from tissues found primarily in the spine As these tumors grow, they compress the spinal cord or invade nerve roots to cause symptoms Some brain tumors may give off cells into the CSF that float down into the subarach...