Is skull tumor symptomatic?
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Brain tumor refers to the growth of new organisms in the cranial cavity, also known as intracranial tumor, brain cancer, can originate from the brain, meninges, nerves, blood vessels and brain accessories, or from other tissues or organs of the body metastases into the brain and form, most can produce headache, intracranial hypertension and focal symptoms. The incidence of brain tumors is about 1.9-5.4 persons per 100000 persons per year, accounting for 1% - 3% of all kinds of tumors in the whole body. Is skull tumor symptomatic? Let's talk about it.
Is skull tumor symptomatic?
(1) Headache: the nature of more severe, often in the early morning attack, sometimes in sleep by pain wake up, but get up after mild activity headache will gradually ease or disappear.
(2) vomiting: due to the increase of intracranial pressure, the respiratory center of medulla oblongata is stimulated, resulting in vomiting. Vomiting mostly occurs after headache, presenting jet shape.
(3) Visual impairment: when intracranial pressure increases, the venous blood of the eyeball will not flow back smoothly, leading to congestion and edema, damaging the visual cells on the retina of the fundus, resulting in decreased vision.
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To sum up, there are various manifestations of brain tumors, so when the above signs appear, we should go to the hospital for detailed examination. At present, CT and MRI can make an early diagnosis of brain tumors.