What are the symptoms of meningioma

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Meningioma is caused by some bad habits of life. If you don't get rid of these bad habits, even if you are cured, you will still relapse. Meningiomas originate from the derivatives of meninges and meninges, incidence rate is 19.2% of intracranial tumors, and occupy second place. Among them, more than 45 years old patients, children are rare. In fact, if not treated in time, the harm of meningioma will be very serious, even death. Let's learn about the characteristics of meningioma symptoms today. I hope you can be more vigilant. When you have similar symptoms, you can go to the hospital for examination and treatment, and pay attention to it yourself.

What are the symptoms of meningioma

First: visual impairment: visual impairment is the most common symptom of tuberculum sellae meningioma, almost all patients have vision, visual field changes. More than 80% of the patients had the first symptom. The visual impairment was slow and progressive, lasting for months or years. In the early stage, one side of vision decreased with temporal visual field defect, unilateral visual impairment accounted for 55%, and then the contralateral optic nerve and optic chiasm compression showed binocular vision decreased or bilateral visual field defect, bilateral visual impairment accounted for 45%, finally leading to blindness. However, the changes of bilateral vision or visual field are often asymmetric and irregular. Even a few patients are blind on one side and normal on the other. These patients are often first diagnosed in ophthalmology. In addition, due to the compression of optic nerve and optic chiasm, primary atrophy of optic disc often occurs in the fundus, which can be as high as 80%. In the late stage, secondary fundus edema can also occur due to increased intracranial pressure.

Second: symptoms of involvement of adjacent structures: when olfactory tract is affected, one or both sides of olfactory tract are impaired or disappeared. When frontal lobe is involved, drowsiness, memory loss, anxiety and other mental symptoms can be produced. When cavernous sinus is compressed, oculomotor nerve paralysis and exophthalmos can be caused. Can change the appearance of the body, but also produce a lot of negative symptoms.

Third: pituitary and hypothalamic dysfunction: pituitary endocrine dysfunction and hypothalamic damage symptoms are rare, but when the tumor grows up and oppresses the pituitary, pituitary dysfunction symptoms can also occur, such as decreased libido, impotence or amenorrhea; when the hypothalamus is involved, polyuria, obesity and sleepiness can also appear.

matters needing attention

Although meningioma is a kind of benign tumor, it is easy to recover as long as it is treated correctly and scientifically. But a lot of people don't think it's normal because it's a benign tumor, delaying their illness. It is easy to get worse, and it may lead to other diseases, with unimaginable consequences. So once you find your condition, you should receive treatment in time.