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22 Cards in this Set
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Frontal lobe (unilateral)
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unilateral hemiplegia, seizure, memory deficit, personality and judgement changes and visual disturbances.
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Frontal lobe (bilateral)
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unilateral hemiplegia, seizure, memory deficit, personality and judgment changes and visual distrubances, and ataxic gait
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Parietal lobe
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Speech (if tumor is in the dominant hemisphere, there is an inability to write, spacial disorders and unilateral neglect)
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occipital lobe
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blindness and seizures
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temporal lobe
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seizures and disphagia.
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Subcortical
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hemiplegia
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Metastatic Tumors
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Headache, n/v d/t increased ICP.
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Thalamus and sellar tumors
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headaches, n/v, vision distrubances, papilla edema, nystagmus from IICP, diabetes insipidus
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4th ventrical and cerebellar
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headaches, nausea, papilla edema from IICP, ataxic gait and changes in coordination
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Cerebellopontina
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tinnitus, vertigo and deafness
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Brain stem
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headache on awakening, drowsiness, vomiting, ataxic gait, facial and muscle weakness, hearing loss, disphagia, disarthria, crossed-eyes, hemiparesis
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Astrocytoma
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Glial cells and astrocytes. Low to moderate grade malignancy
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Glioblastoma
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A primitive stem cell (glioblast). Highly malignant, invasive and most devastating primary tumor
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Oligiodendroglima
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Oligodendrocytes. It's benign, encapsulate and calcified
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Ependymoma
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Epndymal epethelium range from benign to highly malignant. Most are benign and encapsulated.
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Medulloblastoma
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Primitive neuroectodermal cell. Highly malignant and invasive. Metastatic to spinal cord and areas of the brain
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Meningioma
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Areas is the meningies can be benign or malignant. Most are benign
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Acustic Neuroma (Schwannoma)
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Cells that from the mylen sheath around the nerves. Mostly effecting cranial nerve VIII. Most times is bilateral. Usuallyu benighn or low grade malignancy.
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Hemamgioblastoma
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Blood vessels of the brain. it is rare/benign and surgery is currative.
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Pituitary adenoma
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Pituitary gland and is usually benign.
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Primary Central Nervous System lymphoma
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Lymphocytes. Increased incidents in transplant recipients and AIDS patients
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metastatic Tumors
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Lungs, breast, kidneys, thyroids and prostate. Malignant
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