Symptoms of benign meningioma

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A friend of mine has been feeling uncomfortable recently. She said she had a headache. I accompanied her to the hospital for examination. The doctor said that she had a benign meningioma. Meningiomas are divided into intracranial meningioma and ectopic meningioma. The former is formed by intracranial arachnoid cells, and the latter refers to meningiomas occurring in tissues and organs without meningeal cover, It mainly evolved from the residual arachnoid tissue in the embryonic stage. The predilection sites are scalp, skull, orbit, paranasal sinus, trigeminal semilunar ganglion, dural outer layer, etc. The incidence rate of meningiomas is only inferior to gliomas in intracranial tumors. Let's take a look at the following.

Symptoms of benign meningioma

First, headache is the earliest and most common symptom of brain tumor. It occurs in 82% to 90% of patients with different degrees. It was intermittent at the beginning, especially in the morning and at night. Most of the patients had pulsatile dull pain or distending pain in the forehead or both temporal parts and became persistent. Coughing, exerting, sneezing, bending over and lowering head can aggravate headache. Because the skull is not closed, the cranial suture is separated when the cranial pressure is increased, so there is no headache, only dizziness.

Second: vomiting occurs in 2 / 3 of patients, is one of the main symptoms. Common in severe headache, often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, often jet. Serious patients can not eat, after eating will vomit, some benign brain tumors, due to the location of deep, there are many important structures around, found when the volume is large, surgery can not be completely removed, poor prognosis. There are very few brain tumors, which are benign at first and malignant later.

Third: papilledema is the most important objective sign of intracranial hypertension. Patients with infratentorial and midline tumors appeared earlier than those with supratentorial benign tumors. The visual acuity was not affected in the early stage of papilledema. When papilledema lasts for several weeks or months, the optic disc becomes pale gradually, the vision begins to decline, and the visual field shrinks centripetally, which is the manifestation of optic atrophy.

matters needing attention

Patients must pay attention to the benign brain tumor surgery should pay attention to many places, for example, can often carry out some health care work of brain tumor prevention, must pay attention to life, diet careful care, in order to avoid some sequelae after surgery. If necessary, some treatment can be carried out, which is more conducive to the stability and recovery of the patient's condition.