Brain tumors

Question 1

What types of tumors can be classified as gliomas?

Answer 1

astrocytoma, oligodendorglioma, ependymoma, choroid plexus papilloma

Question 2

A man develops cancer that shows up as a solitary brain lesion involving the corpus callosum and looks like a butterfly - what is the prognosis?

Answer 2

this is glioblastoma multiforme - prognosis is poor

Question 3

A 35 year old patient presents with a slowly growing calcified tumor that and has a deletion of chromosomes 1p and 19q. This is…

Answer 3

oligodendoglioma

Question 4

A patient presents with a tumor in the spinal canal that causes obstructuve hydrocephalus. Path shows perivascular pseudorosettes. This is..

Answer 4

ependymoma

Question 5

A 50 year old woman presents with seizures, weakness. CT shows calcifications and MRI shows extra-axial mass adjacent to the dura. This is..

Answer 5

meningioma

Question 6

A young child presents with a rapidly growing tumor that extends to the fourth ventricle causing hydrocS ephalus, headache, unsteadiness. MRI shows an contrast enhancing tumor in the 4th ventricle. This is..

Answer 6

medulloblastoma

Question 7

What is the prognosis for patients with primary CNS lymphoma?

Answer 7

bad - all treatments are palliative

Question 8

What types of brain tumors are associated with von Hippel Lindau syndrome?

Answer 8

hemangioblastoma