Fourth ventricle tumor symptoms?

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With the development of modern science and technology, the detection rate of brain tumors in children is higher and higher. However, often to the hospital after being checked out of intracranial tumors in children, the symptoms have been more serious. So the following is a specific introduction to the fourth ventricle tumor symptoms? I hope this problem can help some people.

Fourth ventricle tumor symptoms?

First: vomiting: This is the most common manifestation of intracranial tumors in children. It is easy to occur in the early morning, and appears at any time of the day with the progress of the disease, showing intermittent and repetitive characteristics. For children, often appear from the mouth, nasal spray like vomiting, and accompanied by headache. We all know that this is a manifestation of increased intracranial pressure, but about 10% of children with brain tumors have recurrent vomiting and no headache; This is often due to vomiting caused by compression and stimulation of the central nervous system at the base of the fourth ventricle. Therefore, when the child has unexplained repeated vomiting, especially accompanied by headache or dizziness, parents should pay attention to take the child for head imaging examination.

Second: headache: adult headache is very common, most of the vascular nerve headache or neurosis. However, for children, the organic lesions in headache are significantly higher than those in adults, and vomiting is also accompanied when headache is serious. Infants or young children can't express their headache to their parents. They are often irritable, slapping their heads, grabbing their hair and crying. Parents should pay attention to the persistent restlessness in infancy, which may indicate that the child has a headache, but the child will not communicate with you.

Third: vision loss and visual field defect: vision loss is very common in children's brain tumors. It is manifested as blurred vision. When children can't see the typeface on the blackboard clearly at school, it is easy to be found by parents. When young children are playing, parents should consciously ask their children to grab some designated toys to identify whether the baby has the performance of vision loss. Visual field defect refers to the spatial range of vision when the head and eyes are not moving. There are horizontal and vertical visual fields. Some children's brain tumors can cause the centripetal narrowing of visual field. During the examination, the common children's optic papilledema is often accompanied by hemorrhage, which can develop into secondary optic atrophy in a short time, and the vision is seriously damaged. Because children often can't cooperate with the examination, sometimes they need to ask an ophthalmologist to dilate their pupils and check under the examination microscope. Before judging that the child is myopic, parents must do the exclusion examination of brain tumor with the help of neurosurgeon.

matters needing attention

Almost 100% of suprasellar germinoma is the first symptom. Craniopharyngioma will appear at a lower incidence in the late stage. For children, primary diabetes insipidus should not be used as the diagnosis, but imaging examination should be done to exclude the possibility of intracranial tumor.