Items tagged “brain”
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Developmental venous anomaly
Developmental venous anomaly (DVA), also known as cerebral venous angioma, is a congenital malformation of veins which drain normal brain. They were thought to be rare before cross-sectional imaging but are now recognized as being the most common cerebral vascular malformation, accounting for ~5...
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Ependymoma
Ependymomas represent a relatively broad group of glial tumors most often arising from the lining of the ventricles of the brain or the central canal of the spinal cord. They account for ~5% of all neuroepithelial neoplasms, ~10% of all pediatric brain tumors and up to 33% of brain tumors occurr...
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Obstructive hydrocephalus
Obstructive hydrocephalus is a term usually used to denote obstructive non-communicating hydrocephalus.
It is actually a term that causes confusion as used in the above sense implies that communicating hydrocephalus does not have an obstruction to CSF flow/absorption; this is not true as the m...
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Pituitary apoplexy
Pituitary apoplexy is an acute clinical condition caused by either hemorrhagic or non-hemorrhagic necrosis of the pituitary gland. Although presentation is variable, it typically comprises headache, visual deficits, ophthalmoplegia, and altered mental status. An existing pituitary macroadenoma i...
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Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor (DNET)
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Gliomatosis cerebri
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Subependymoma
Subependymomas are uncommon, benign (WHO grade 1) tumors which are slow-growing and non-invasive. They tend to occur in middle-aged and older individuals and usually identified as an incidental finding.
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These tumors were previously also known as subependymal astrocytomas, not to b...
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Tumefactive demyelinating lesion
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Glioblastoma NOS
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14 Feb 2010
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Intraventricular ganglioglioma
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14 Feb 2010
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Dandy-Walker variant
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15 Feb 2010
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Joubert syndrome
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15 Feb 2010
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Posterior fossa ependymoma
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17 Feb 2010
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Tuberculous leptomeningitis (gross pathology)
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18 Feb 2010
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Falx meningioma
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19 Feb 2010
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Mesial temporal sclerosis - bilateral
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20 Feb 2010
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Epidermoid
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21 Feb 2010
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Multiple sclerosis
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21 Feb 2010
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Ganglioglioma
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21 Feb 2010
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Intracranial dermoid cyst
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22 Feb 2010
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