Brain tumours: analysis of signs and symptoms in fifty Iraqi patients

Fiftypatienrs having brain tumors were studied, their signs and symptoms were analyzed. There was no sex preponderance; headache was the commonest symptom. Eighty-six% of the patients experienced headache, in 56% of them headache formed a chief complaint. Visual disturbance was the second most common symptoms, it occurred in 58% of patients. Papilodema was present in 70% of patients. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate was not elevated in patients with primary intracranial tumours. Skull x-ray was not helpful in the diagnosis while CT scan was the mainstay in the diagnosis of a brain tumour