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Which instance is higher primary brain tumours or metastatic?

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Metastatic neoplasms

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Appearance of metastatic brain tumours?

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Multiple, well-delineated spherical nodules that are randomly distributed

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2 most common primary sites for malignant brain tumours to arise from?

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Breast
Lung
But any malignant tumour can metastasise to there

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Difference between primary brain tumours and epithelial tumours?

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Isn’t always a distinct cut off for benign and malignant in primary. There is in epithelial.

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What are gliomas?

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Tumours of the neuroepithelial (neuroepithelial origin)

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Where do gliomas usually occur?

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Usually seen within the hemispheres

-Although occasionaly in cerebellum, brainstem or cord

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Cause of gliomas?

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Unknown

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How do gliomas spread?

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By direct invasion

-Never metastases (virtually) outside the CNS

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Main type of gliomas?

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Astrocytomas and oligodendrogliomas

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More rare types of gliomas?

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Ependymal cell tumours
Pineal cell tumours
Embryonic cell tumours

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What are astrocytomas?

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Gliomas that arise from astrocytes

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How are astrocytomas histologically graded?

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Grade I-IV

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Difference between grade I and grade IV astrocytomas?

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Grade I: Grows very slowly over many years

Grade IV: Causes death within several months

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Grade II astrocytomas?

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Blurring between grey and white matter which makes them more difficult to dissect

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Grade IV astrocytomas shows?

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Marked abnormalities with haemorrhagic change, necrosis, loss of integrity of tissues and surrounding oedema
Causing midline shift

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What are grade IV astrocytomas termed?

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Glioblastomas/glioblastoma multiforme

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Talk to me about glioblastoma multiforme?

Commonness (?), occurs, prognosis

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  • Commonest glial tumour
  • May occur de novo or following history of low grade astrocytoma
  • Highly malignant
  • Prognosis of patients is v poor
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What are gliomas that arise from dendrocytes called?

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Oligodendroglioma

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How oligodendrogliomas exist and what occurs to them?

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Grow very slowly over several decades and calcification is common

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What is the fancy name for childhood brian tumours?

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Tumours of neuronal cell types

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What can fully differentiated neurons not do?

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Neither multiply or give rise to neoplasms

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What type of tumours are seen in infancy or childhood?

Derived from?

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Tumours of neuronal cell types

-Derived from primitive nerve precursors (blast cells)

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What are blast cells?

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Basically a precursor to mature neurons

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What do you call a neuronal tumour arising from cerebellum?

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Medulloblastoma

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Retinoblastoma is?
Tumour arising from the retina
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What are tumours which arise from sympathetic ganglia?
Neuroblastoma | Ganglioneuroma
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Explain something interesting about ganglioneuromas?
Tumour is derived from blast cells but as the tumour grows the neurons actually mature
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Tumours which arise in supporting tissue/mesodermal?
Meningiomas | Other mesodermal tumours
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Where are meningiomas thought to arise from?
Arachnoid granulations
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Where would you find meningiomas commonly?
Adjacent to venous tissues
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________ account for 15-20% of intracranial tumours.
Meningiomas
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Are meningiomas bad?
Slow-growing and essentially benign
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Where can meningiomas occasionally arise?
Spine
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True vascular neoplasms are_______, but vascular hamartomas are _________.
1. Rare | 2. Common
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What is a hamartoma?
Noncancerous tumour made of an abnormal mixture of normal tissues and cells from the area in which it grows
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Primary microglial and lymphoid tumours are common/rare?
Rare
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What tumours are associated with EBV? And what does this make them?
Primary cerebral lymphomas | -Important complication of AIDs
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Schwannoma AKA?
Neuroma
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What are neuromas derived from?
Schwann cells surrounding axons
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Most common neuroma?
Vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma) which arises from CNVIII in the cerebellopontine angle
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Where do acoustic neuromas arise from?
CNVIII in the cerebellopontine angle
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Symptoms of vestibular schwannoma?
Progressive sensorineural hearing loss Tinnitus Vertigo Tumour is often unilateral so symptoms are too
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What tumour commonly has unilateral symptoms?
Vestibular schwannoma/acoustic neuroma
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Prognosis of vestibular schwannoma?
Benign - Tend to grow around adjacent structures - Irregular surface so can be difficult to remove
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What are neurofibromas derived from?
Endoneurium | -Layer of delicate connective tissue around the myelin sheath of each nerve in the PNS
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Amount of neurofibromas common?
Can be solitary, or in neurofibromatosis multiple
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What sets neurofibromas apart from schwannomas?
Small but significant proportion of neurofibromas undergo transformation to malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours
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Where and derivation of germ cell tumours?
Arise in midline structures | -Derived from embryologically misplaced germ cells
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Pituitary gland tumour example?
Adenoma
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What is a craniopharyngioma?
Rare type of brain tumour derived from pituitary gland embryonic tissue
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General knowledge for direct effects of brain tumours?
Local progressive deterioration in function, signs and symptoms will depend on area of brain affected
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Direct effects of frontal lobe lesions: Precentral gyrus?
-Contralateral weakness (part of the body where this occurs depends where tumour is in gyrus- corresponds with motor homunculus)
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Where is Broca's area?
Inferior frontal gyrus
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Direct effects of frontal lobe lesions: Broca's area?
-Expressive dysphasia where patent can still comprehend words but produces faulty sentences
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Dysphasia?
How you speak and understand languages -People with dysphasia might have trouble putting the right words together in a sentence, understanding what others say, reading, and writing
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Direct effect of tumour in middle frontal gyrus?
Abnormalities of gaze
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Tumour in micturition inhibition centre causes?
Incontinence
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Frontal lobe lesions direct effects?
Personality changes, disinhibition and cognitive slowing
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Frontal lobe lesions examples?
- Precentral gyrus - Broca's area (Inferior frontal gyrus) - Frontal eye fields (Middle frontal gyrus) - Micturition inhibition centre
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Temporal lobe lesions exmaples?
Auditory cortex and wernickes area (superior temporal gyrus)
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Tumour in Auditory cortex can lead to?
Loss of awareness of sound
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Tumour in Wernicke's area?
Damage can lead to receptive dysphagia in which an individual has impaired comprehension and produces jargon (word salad) but fluent speech
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Where is Wernicke's area?
Located in superior temporal gyrus in dominant hemisphere
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General direct effects of temporal lobe lesions?
Memory deficits | Contralateral superior quadrantanopia
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Tumour in occipital lobe lesions causes?
Visual cortex: visual hallucinations | -Contralateral homonymous hemianopia
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Parietal lobe lesions: Postcentral gyrus cause?
Contralateral sensory loss | Part of body will depend on location along gyrus
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Parietal lobe lesions can cause?
Contralateral inferior quadrantopia
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If dominant lobe affected in parietal lobe lesions?
- Dyscalculia - Dysgraphia (difficulty writing) - Finger agnosia (inability to distinguish between and recognise all fingers) - Left-right disorientation
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What is the dominant parietal lobe usually?
Left
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Non-dominant parietal lobe lesions causes?
- Neglect - Dressing apraxia - Constructional apraxia
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What is neglect?
Deficit in awareness of one side of the body
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Dressing apraxia?
Inability to dress onseself automatically
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Constructional apraxia?
Inability to build, assemble or draw objects
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Cerebellum lesions memory tool?
DANISH
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DANISH?
``` Dysdiadochokinesia Ataxia Nystagmus Intention tremor Scanning dysarthria Hypotonia ```
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What is dysdiadochokinesia?
Impairment of rapid alternating movements: quick alternating, pronation supination of hand
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Ataxia?
Broad based gait
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Nystagmus?
Involuntary, uncontrolled eye movements
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Intention tremor?
Tremor that gets worse as you approach end point of guided movement, finger yo nose test can show this
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Scanning dysarthria?
Patient speaks slowly with poor articulation of speech
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Hypotonia?
Reduced tone
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Raised ICP due to mass lesion can present as?
Headache, vomiting and papilloedema
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Headache red flags pointing to a tumour?
- Headache worse in morning - Headache that wakes you up - Headache worse with coughing or leaning forward - Headache assoc with vomiting
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Why is a red flag headache worse in morning?
Because lying down increases ICP
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Why would a headache be assoc with vomiting?
Pressure on medulla
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What is papilloedema and cause?
Bilateral optic disc swelling due to raised ICP
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Seizures are a common presenting feature of?
Malignant brain tumours
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Why seizure = malig brain tumour?
Tumour irritates cortex and disrupts normal electrical pathways
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Partial seizures evolving into generalized tonic clonic seizures are characteristic of?
Many hemisphere masses whether benign or malignant
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Investigation of choice for brain tumours?
MRI | however CT if MRI not available
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Other investigations whne brain tumour found?
Because they are usually mets a chest X-ray should be done
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Treatment of low grade astrocytomas?
Removed as it has been shown that these tumours if left have potential to de-differentiate into a high grade malignancy
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De-differntiate?
Reverse differentiation and lose specialised charcteristics
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Gold standard treatment for glioblastomas?
Surgery, radiotherapy and chemo Although still poor prognosis
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Treatment for oligodendroglial tumours?
Mix of surgery, chemo, radio
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Treatment of meningiomas?
Small: watched Large: Surgery and other
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Treatment of vestibular schwannomas?
Often not removed: surgery risks permenant hearing loss: - Watched - Hearing aid given
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Surgery for vestibular schwannomas difficult because?
Surface so irregular and grow around adjacent structures

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