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| Which type of brain tumors are the most common? |
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| What are the most common primary brain tumors? |
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| If a 45 year old man is diagnosed with a brain tumor, which one would it most likely be? |
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| What is the most common tumor in 25-34 year olds? |
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Environmental
*Brain tumors with genetic factors are very rare! |
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| Would a tumor of the brain be more likely from genetic factors or environmental factors? |
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| What is the gold standard for diagnosing a brain tumor? |
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| Yes, it would have tumor markers |
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| Would a lumbar puncture give you information about a brain tumor? |
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| Definition: Swelling, neoplasm |
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| Definition: new growth, usually focal, autonomous and having no useful function. |
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| Definition: any malignant neoplasm |
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| Autonomic extent of a tumor, how big it is and where it is located. |
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| Degree of malignancy based on histologic pattern. |
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| A forecast of the probable outcome of a disease (staging and grading are both designed to arrive at a prognosis). |
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| What is the grade for the most rapidly producing tumor? |
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| What is vasogenic and results from the breakdown of the blood-brain barrier, increased permeability of capillaries and escape of fluids and plasma proteins into the extracellular space, chiefly into the white matter? |
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| transtentorial herniation |
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| Hemispheric lesions displace the hippocampus and uncus through the tentorial opening. |
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oculomotor N.
*would look for dilated/fixed pupil & ptosis |
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| Which nerve would you worry about with transtentorial herniation? |
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| Cerebellar-tonsillar herniations |
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| A mass lesion in the posterior fossa displaced the cerebellar tonsils through the foramen magnum. |
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| Which brain tumors are derived from glial cells? |
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| Predominantly benign tumors of adults, usually attached to the dura, that arise from the meningothelial cells of the arachnoid . |
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| Where do astrocytomas arise from? |
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| Glioblastoma Multiforme Grade IV Astrocytoma |
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| What type of tumor accounts for 20% of all primary brain tumors and 50% of the gliomas? |
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| Which layer of the dura do Meningiomas arise from? |
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