Metastatic brain tumors
Metastatic brain tumors - a brain tumor, which arose from tumors in other tissues or organs. Brain metastases are common in cancer patients and are a frequent cause of death in these patients.
Groups at risk of metastatic brain tumors
Brain metastases are common to all mali
...
Read more »
|
Brain Tumors
For brain tumors characterized by the peculiarity that they do not matter histologic type of tumor - malignant or benign, since they both have the same effect more on the brain itself - compression and displacement of its structures. Therefore, it is much more important is not the histological type of tumor and its anatomical location, as it is on what part
...
Read more »
|
Types of brain tumors
There are different classifications of brain tumors. One is the division of all brain tumors in the primary and secondary.
The primary tumor
Primary tumors originate from the very fabric of the brain tissue or adjacent to it, such as tissue mater, cranial nerves, pituitary and pineal gland. The
...
Read more »
|
lumbar puncture, Ultrasound of the brain
One of the methods of diagnosis of brain tumors is electroencephalography (EEG). This method is somewhat similar to electrocardiography. It consists of recording the electrical potentials of the brain over time. EEG is performed with the use of special plates that are superimposed
...
Read more »
|
Ultrasound of the brain
Ultrasound is not bypassed and a brain tumor, however, it is rarely used. The fact that ultrasound can not pass through the skull. If he can easily penetrate through them, you may not be needed, many methods that are now there.
Ultrasound examination of the brain called the "M - echo". This method allows the displac
...
Read more »
|
Computed tomography
The use of computed tomography in the diagnosis of brain tumors
Computed tomography (CT) - a modern method of X-ray studies of organs and tissues, which allows you to explore them in layers, with all the information is processed on a computer.
The principle of CT is the following. T
...
Read more »
|
Magnetic resonance imaging
Diagnosis of brain tumors using MRI
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - a method for diagnosis of human internal organs with the use of the physical phenomenon of nuclea
...
Read more »
|
|
