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Where do brain tumors arise from?
Glial cells
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T/F: Neurons turn into brain tumors
False
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What are the 2 types of brain tumors?
Primary and Secondary
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What are the 2 subcategories of a primary brain tumor.
- Intraparenchymal- inside-fxnal part- of organ
- Extraparenchymal- outside-fxnal part- of organ
paren=fxnal
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Glioma (astrocytoma) occurs in what type of brain tumor?
Primary- Intraparenchymal
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What type of tumor occurs inside the skull and what subtype does it follow?
- Menignioma(acoustic neuroma) - extraparenchymal
- occurs between brain and meninges
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What subtype follows the secondary brain tumor?
intraparenchymal
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What happens during a secondary brain tumor?
starts from another organ--> travels to blood stream--> then travels to brain.
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Which type of tumor metastasizes?
Secondary
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Where do adults get tumors?
- Cerebral hemispheres
- sometimes tumors can tickle neurons and cause epilepsy
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Which part of the brain do children get tumors?
Brainstem and cerebellum
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Glial tumors follow what type of traces?
white matter
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Glioblastoma tumors grow where in the brain and what is it also called?
- grows ALL over brain
- Also called Butterfly tumor
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Meningioma orginates between ___ & ___
bone and brain
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If extraparenchymal tumors occur outside of the brain, what kind of force is caused on it?
a pushing force
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What happens when a patient gets orbital meningioma?
behavior changes
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Ugly tumors are ____ and are ______
malignant---constantly growing
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If there a patient has balance problems, what kind of tumor would the person have?
Cerebellar meningioma
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A person has ___ if they have balance problems.
ataxia
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Are operations normally done on kids with tumors in the brainstem?
nope!
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What is the most common brain tumor?
secondary
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How can you treat brain tumors?
chemotherapy, irradiation, gamma knife
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Anything tumor that spreads from blood stream from infectin goes to ______, where it tends to get suck
watershed
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Which cerebral artieries hold tumors easier?
Posterior/Anterior/Middle
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What kind of cancers can cause brain cancer if it's not treated quickly?
- lung, kidney, breast, melanoma,
- LuCKBrm
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What type of tumors are highly malignant?
multiple metastatic tumors
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What happens during cytoxic edema?
everything swells because ther's a lot of water.
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What are some symptoms of tumors?
- Depends on location
- slowly progressive
- if cortex involved, seizures are common
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 What kind of tumor is this?
cytoxic edema
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Glioma and Astryocytoma occur as what type of brain tumor?
primary-intraparenchymal
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Meningioma and acoustic neruoma occur as what type of brain tumor?
Primary-extraparenchymal
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1. Which of the following statements about secondary tumors is incorrect?
A. None of the
B. They are most commonly found in the dura
C. B & C
D. They are the most common type of brain tumor
E. They are the result of metastasis
above
B. They are most commonly found in the dura (this multiple choice question has been scrambled)
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The spread of a tumor along white matter tracts resulting in a butterfly shape is called
Glioma/glioblastoma
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What is vasogenic edema?
breakdown of tight jxns in the cells of BBB, which regulaties the flow of materials entering brain
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What is cytoxic edema?
- very dangerous, break down in cell regulation of glial cells
- water retained in grey/white matter
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