Dr O Quiz 3 - ch 31

Question 0

Where do secondary tumors spread to?

Answer 0

Lungs or breast

Question 1

Where do primary tumors develop? (3)

Answer 1

Brain, spinal cord, or surrounding structures

Question 2

Paraneoplastic syndrome occurs due to what?

Answer 2

Remote or direct effect on the CNS from else where in the body

Question 3

The clinical manifestations of brain tumors depend on what?

Answer 3

The compression or infiltration of specific cerebral tissue

Question 4

What are the 3 most common signs of brain tumor, 2 common but not always there signs

Answer 4

Edema, intracranial pressure, and headache

Nausea and vomiting

Question 5

What are the 3 main signs of a PRIMARY tumor?

Answer 5

Mental (clouding, lethargy, alterations in consciousness and cognition, syncope, and fatigue easily) and behavioral signs (irritability, flat affect, emotional lability, and lack of initiative and spontaneity) as well as seizures

Question 6

What is the most common primary tumor?
How does it present itself?
What also may occur? (4)

Answer 6

Glioma
Unilateral headache followed by generalized headache
Lethargy memory loss, motor weakness and personality change

Question 7

What is the difference between an oligodeneroma and medulloblastoma?

Answer 7

Oligodeneromas are slow growing in the cerebral hemisphere while medulloblastomas are rapidly growing and aggressive in younger children

Question 8

Meningiomas are usually malignant or begnine?
What age does it occur during?
More frequent in men or women?

Answer 8

Begnine
40-70
Women

Question 9

What are the 2 clinical manifestations of pituitary adenomas?

Answer 9

Excessive hormones (Galactorrhea, hemorrhage, gigantism, and acromegaly)
Insufficient hormones (regression of secondary sexual characteristics and hypothyroidism)

Question 10

What symptoms arise from neurinomas and neuromas?

Answer 10

Hearing loss, tinnitus, vertigo and unsteadiness

Question 11

What are 2 signs of a spinal tumor?

Answer 11

Sensory changes and syringomyelia (loss of pain and temp)

Question 12

Definition of paraneoplastic syndromes

Answer 12

Effects on the body not directly related to the primary tumor mass or metastasis

Question 13

Incidence of pediatric tumors

Answer 13

Peaks from 0-6
Drops at 7-10
Stays steady until 18 then drops

Question 14

3 clinical manifestations of pediatric tumors

3 other signs of pediatric tumors

Answer 14

Seizures, ataxia, and symptoms of increased ICP

Headache, nausea, and cranial nerve palsy