The brain is the center of life. All the activities of life can only happen through a mechanism regulated by the brain. At the same time, the brain has to run thousands of events at a time. Broadly speaking, the brain is divided into three parts, the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem. Interstellar space is filled with cerebrospinal fluid (cerebrospinal fluid), while the exterior is protected by three layers of the lining of the brain (meninges) to the skull.
Like the rest of the body, the brain can be affected by the tumor or cancer. The difference is, if the other body parts sometimes do not interfere with benign and harmless, but benign tumors in the brain can be very disturbing and endangering lives. Common symptoms of brain tumors and cancer are as follows:
Common Symptoms of Cerebral
It can be either mild cerebral changes (psychomotor asthenia), which can be perceived by the patient in the form of immediate family: irritability, emotional instability, forgetfulness, slowing of cognitive and social activities, loss of initiative and spontaneity, may be found anxiety and depression.
Pain in the Head
An estimated 1% of the causes of headaches is brain tumors and 30% of brain tumor early symptoms are headache. While symptoms further 70% of cases were found. The nature of head pain varies from mild and episodic to serious and throbbing, generally more extreme at night and on waking in the morning and in the situation where there is elevated intracranial pressure. The presence of headache with psychomotor asthenia should be suspected brain tumor.
Gag
Present in 30% of cases, and generally follow the headache. More common in the posterior fossa tumors in general is projectile vomiting and was not accompanied by nausea.
Convulsions
The emergence of seizures can be an early symptom of brain tumors in 25% of cases, and more than 35% of cases at an advanced stage. An estimated 2% of the cause of seizures are a brain tumor.
Seizures are suspect as a brain tumor when:
Generation first seizure at the age of 25 years
- Experiencing post-ictal paralysis
- Having the status of epilepsy
- Resistant to epilepsy medications
- Generation accompanied by other intracranial high-pressure symptoms.
Seizures observed in 70% of tumors in the brain cortex, 50% of patients with astrocytoma, 40% in patients with meningioma, and 25% in glioblastoma.
Symptoms of High Intracranial Pressure
Form of complaints of headache in the frontal and occipital arising in the morning and evening, projectile vomiting and loss of consciousness. On examination found pail edema. This situation needs immediate action when they arise because each threat herniation. Moreover, it can be found Parsee N.VI caused by intracranial N.VI teregangnya.
While specific symptoms based on the location and function of the brain are attacked, among others:
Tumors in the Frontal Lobe:
- Changes in behavior and personality
- Decreased ability to judge things
- Decreased sense of smell
- Reduced memory
- Paralysis on one side of the body
- Decreased mental function / cognitive
- Decreased vision and eye nerve inflammation
Tumors of the Parietal Lobe:
- Decreased ability to speak
- Unable to write
- Not being able to recognize a person
- Convulsions
- Disorientation space
Tumors in the occipital lobe:
- Loss of vision in one or both eyes
- Convulsions
Tumors in the Temporal Lobe:
- Decreased ability to speak
- Convulsions
- Sometimes no symptoms at all
Posterior fossa tumors on:
- Impaired walking
- Headache
- Vomiting
Tumors in Cerebello Pontin Angie:
- Hearing loss
Tumors of the Brain Stem:
- Changes in behavior and emotional (more sensitive, easily offended)
- It is difficult to speak and swallow
- Drowsiness
- Headache, especially in the morning
- Loss of hearing
- Nerve weakness on one side of the face
- Nerve weakness on one side of the body
- Uncontrolled Movement
- Loss of vision, eyelid shut, squint, etc....
- Vomiting
Brain Tumors in the membrane:
- Headache
- Loss of hearing
- Impaired speech
- Incontinence (unable to control urination / large)
- Mental and emotional disturbances (apathy, anarchists, etc.)
- Drowsiness prolonged
- Convulsions
- Loss of vision
Tumors of the pituitary gland:
- Menstruation stops (amenorrhea)
- Producing milk
- Impotence
Tumors of the hypothalamus:
- Disorders of sexual development in children
- Stop menstruation (amenorrhea)
- Disorders of fluid and electrolyte
Tumors of the ventricle:
- Hydrocephalus
- Neck stiffness
- Head tilted
- Sudden headache
- Blurred vision
- Impairment of consciousness
Despite experiencing one or more symptoms as above only, not necessarily a person suffering from a tumor or brain cancer. To make sure it is necessary to direct examination by the doctor nerve and further investigation such as CT scan, MRI, angiogram, myelogram, spinal tap and biopsy
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