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Primary brain tumor brain tumors that arise from within the brain Secondary (metastatic) brain tumors brain tumors resulting from a metastasis from a malignant neoplasm elsewhere in the body -most common -most metastasize from lung and breast -directly infiltrating tissue -producing adjacent edem...

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NUR 426 Exam 3 Brain Cancer Review
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Primary brain tumor ✅brain tumors that arise from within the brain

Secondary (metastatic) brain tumors ✅brain tumors resulting from a metastasis from a
malignant neoplasm elsewhere in the body
-most common
-most metastasize from lung and breast

-directly infiltrating tissue
-producing adjacent edema
-compressing adjacent structures
-irritating surrounding tissue
-blocking flow of csf
-creating new blood vessels that hemorrhage ✅brain tumors cause symptoms by
several mechanisms:

-headache (worse at night; dull/constant/throbbing)
-seizures (gliomas, brain metastases)
-increased intracranial pressure (n/v)
-cognitive-behavioral deficits (memory issues, mood/personality changes)
-muscle weakness
-sensory losses
-aphasia
-visual-spatial deficits
-ventricular enlargement/hydrocephalus (if tumor obstructs ventricles or occludes the
outlet)
-cerebral edema ✅general symptoms for brain tumor

-focal neurologic symptoms
-seizures
-headache ✅cluster unique symptoms to brain tumor population

-unilateral hemiplegia
-seizures
-memory deficits
-personality & judgement changes
-visual disturbances ✅cm frontal lobe tumors (unilateral)

-ataxic gait
-unilateral hemiplegia
-seizures
-memory deficits

, -personality & judgement changes
-visual disturbances ✅cm frontal lobe tumors (bilateral)

-seizures
-dysphagia
-hallucinations
-auras ✅cm of temporal lobe tumors

-speech disturbance ( if in dominant hemisphere)
-inability to write
-spatial disorders
-unilateral neglect ✅cm of parietal lobe tumors

-vision disturbances
-seizures ✅cm of occipital lobe tumor

-increased icp
-obstruction ✅cm of ventricular tumor

-headache
-papilledema
-ataxia
-incoordination
-nystagmus
-nausea ✅cm of cerebellum & 4th ventricle tumor

-lower cranial nerve deficits
-motor/sensory deficits
-ataxia
-incoordination
-nystagmus
-n/v ✅cm brain stem tumor

-hemiplegia ✅cm of subcortical tumors

-cm associated with brain compression and location ✅cm of meningeal tumors

-headache
-n/v (increased icp)
-depend on location ✅cm of metastatic tumor

-headache
-nausea
-vision disturbances
-papilliedema

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