Not everything pain head is a brain tumor, even though 80% of the people that suffer East pain it associate with the illness. the pain of head have plenty of Causes and in the most of the times his source not is A tumor.
“Everybody we have Dyed a pain of head; in that moment it first that we think in Yeah can have a brain tumor or aneurysm brain,” says the doctor, Bernardo Perez, neurosurgeonof Medical Center.
“The doctors we have an arsenal of alternatives, What studies of various technologies that us allowknow with accuracy the source of pain and more still, Yeah we’re in presence of a tumor in the brainsays the doctor perez.
The symptom of the tumors cerebral include, furtherof the pains of head, seizures, nausea Y vomiting, problems of view either hearing, problems behavioral Y cognitive. The problems of motor skillsof Balance Y a strong Pressure on the head, too I know manifest with the presence of a brain tumor.
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According to the doctor perezthe pain of head is a specialization formal in the neurology clinic Y to the most of the cases, “East symptom should to be so much attended, What studied, for neurology clinic”He says.
“The attention of the headaches for neurosurgery is a resource wrong used; big part of the patientsrequire of a treatment doctor and of a tracingwithout need of a intervention”, emphasizes the neurosurgeon from the center Doctor .
Although the brain tumor causes a headache, the doctor will consider people who do not have a history of headache. Another of the particular characteristics is that headaches, due to a brain tumor, tend to worsen when waking up and are relieved during the day.
According to the neurosurgeon, the two most frequent groups of headaches are clear, vascular headaches and tension headaches. The former are frequently familial, have a similar pattern of presentation, and their form of treatment will be determined by the frequency of their presentation.
“A frequency of more than one episode per month will suggest the use of preventive therapy. Less than one episode per month will suggest abortion therapy”, says Dr. Pérez.
The symptoms and specific characteristics, after monitoring and study, will lead the specialist to suspect and then diagnose the presence of some type of tumor or mass in the brain.
“A tumor is a mass of abnormal cells. It can be benign or malignant. If it is malignant or cancer (primary brain) it rarely spreads”, says the neurosurgeon.
According to Dr. Pérez, whether malignant or benign, “all tumors are serious because when they grow they end up compressing and damaging the structures of the brain, because the tumor mass has no place to expand within the cranial cavity,” says the specialist.
Brain tumors have two classifications: primary and secondary. The primary ones begin in the same brain tissue, while the secondaries are metastases that have come from another area of the body.
Primary tumors can be benign and malignant and are classified according to the tissue where they originate: the most frequent are gliomas, from neuroglial tissue (connective tissue) of the brain; medulloblastomas, in the primary embryonic cells, most frequently occur in children; meningiomas, in the mucosal membranes lining the brain and spinal cord, can be malignant.
There are also glioblastoma multiforme, a high-grade tumor that originates from low-grade gliomas; and lymphomas, which form in lymphocytic cells, usually in other parts of the body, although they can also appear in the brain and spinal cord.
Secondary tumors come from the lungs or breasts. Melanomas that start on the skin and cancers that start in the kidneys (renal cell cancer) are also likely to spread to the brain. 25% of brain tumors are secondary, that is, metastatic.
According to the American Cancer Society, each year, more than 17,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with brain tumors. Although brain tumors can appear at any age, most develop in adults between the ages of 40 and 70 and in children between the ages of 3 and 12.
OTHER MANIFSTATIONS AND SYMPTOMS OF TUMORS
- Vomiting and nausea; a specific type of vomiting, called projectile vomiting and associated with brain tumors, in which the body abruptly expels the contents of the stomach
- seizures
- Weakness in the arms and legs
- Difficulty or changes in speech
- Lack of coordination when walking
- Vision changes or abnormal eye movements
- Drowsiness
- Changes in personality or memory
- Ringing in the ears (tinnitus)
- Symptoms that resemble a cerebrovascular accident
The specific symptoms of a brain tumor depend on its size and location within the brain. These can be caused by a number of factors including:
- increased pressure inside the skull
- brain tissue damage
- Swelling and fluid accumulation (edema) around the tumor
- Hydrocephalus, sometimes called “water on the brain,” which occurs when the flow of cerebrospinal fluid is obstructed and accumulates in the brain.