Tumors Flashcards
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Tumors in children?
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Ependymomas, cerebellar astrocytoma, brainstem glioma
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Most common tumors/location in adult?
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Supratentorial - meningioma, gliomas
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Unlike other cancers, these are not related to primary brain tumors?
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Alcohol, smoking
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Butterfly-pattern tumor?
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Glioblastoma multiforme or CNS lymphoma
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Intratumor calcifications?
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Oligodendrocytomas or meningiomas
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Perivascular pseudorosettes - tumor? Likely presents with?
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Ependymomas; non-communicating hydrocephalus
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Verocay bodies? Associated with?
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Sheets of spindle cells forming palisades; schwannona
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Tumors associated with NF2?
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Bilateral vestibular schwannomas
Meningiomas
Intramedullary ependymomas
