Naslov
Stroke-like syndrome as the first clinical presentation of brain tumors

Autori
Palić, Josip ; Jančuljak, Davor ; Barac, Boško ; Rukovanjski, Marko ; Dmitrović, Branko ; Šerić, Vatroslav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Abstracts of the Meeting of the European Federation of Neurological Societies, European Journal of Neurology 5 (1998), suppl. 3 / Boller, Francois - Sevilla : European Journal of Neurology ; Rapid Science Publishers, 1998, S160-S160

Skup
3rd Congress of the European Federation of Neurological Societies

Mjesto i datum
Sevilla, Španjolska, 19.09.1998. - 25.09.1998

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
brain tumors; stroke; differential diagnosis

Sažetak
Over 5 consecutive years 139 cases of brain tumor have been diagnosed in patients hospitalized at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Osijek, Croatia. Diagnoses were primarily made using computed tomography (CT) brain scans, and in some cases confirmed by pathohystological tissue examination during operation or after autopsy. A considerable proportion of those patients (20%) was admitted to the hospital with clinical symptoms of stroke. According to the time course of the development of symptoms the patients were divided into two subgroups; 16 an acute stroke-like onset within 24 hours, and 12 with a slower progression of the symptoms mimicking cerebovascular diseases. The most common first symptom in both subgroups of patients was motor hemiparesis, followed by speech disorders, acute headache, and in individual cases hemianopia, vertigo, sensory loss and impairment of consciousness. The primary brain tumors were found in 17 patients, and the rest had methastatic tumors. The CT brain scans showed the presence of massive brain hemorrhage only in four cases, most of the cases were characterized with the CT signs of the intracranial compression and brain edema. A clinical diagnosis of the stroke syndrome in some cases of brain tumors may be misleading, thus the early diagnostic work-up in these patients is required to allow an adequate treatment.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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