A Retrospective Study of CNS Tumors
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2017, Vol 16, Issue 2
Abstract
A total of 50 patients with CNS tumors were evaluated clinically and by imaging techniques followed by intraoperative examination and histopathological evaluation of the resected tumor. The age of the patients ranged from 5 to 70 years with a peak between 30 and 50 years. Overall, males were more frequently affected than females, the male: female ratio being 1.4 :1. CNS neoplasms occurred predominantly intracranially 42 cases (84%), whereas the remaining 8 cases (16 %) were spinal (ratio: 5.25 :1) The commonest presenting symptoms were headache, motor weakness and seizures. Frontal lobe was the commonest intracranial site (37.5%) and dorsal region the most frequently involved site in spinal cord tumors. Regarding the imaging studies the overall accuracy rate of MRI was 70 %, in these cases. Biopsy was regarded as the sole means of confirming the presumptive clinical diagnosis. Histologically, of the CNS tumors, meningiomas constituted the maximum number of cases, 18 cases (42.8%) followed by astrocytoma( 33.3%). Among the spinal tumors schwannoma constituted 50 % of cases. In this study, an effort was made to provide a current overview of the central nervous system tumors in a tertiary care hospital set up.
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Dr. Joel Dhanapandian S, Dr. Johnsy Merla J
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