Clinico-epidemiological study of primary intracranial neoplasms

ABSTRACT

One hundred seventy three cases presented with primary intracranial neoplasms were attended and treated at the Radiation Oncology Unit, Radiology Depatment, Tanta University Hospitals, during the period from September 1987 through December 1993 inclusive. They represent 6.3% of all registered cases in this Unit. The collected data for patients including results of clinical data and fundus examinations, operative and biopsy reports together with computed tomography films were reviewed. In this series, 58% were males and 42% were females, with mean age of 34.53 + 20.56 years for whole series. The most common presenting symptoms were headache [69.4%] and vomiting [51.4%] while paresis [24.3%] was the third one. Tinnitus [1.2%] and anosmia [0.6%] were the least presenting symptoms. While 8% of cases were classified as medulloblastoma, 36.4% were classified as astrocytoma, and 6 cases were diagnosed as pineal body tumors [3.4%]