CNS tumor

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CNS tumor

Oncology Any tumor of the CNS, which may be primary–eg brain stem glioma, craniopharyngioma, medulloblastoma, meningioma, or metastatic or secondary. See Brain tumor.

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Possible etiologic factors include head injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage, meningitis, and CNS tumor.

Hydrocephalus ? Causes, Symptoms and Treatment by Richard James / Health, general community

A long clinical history of CNS symptoms or seizures prior to the diagnosis of a CNS tumor is suggestive of origin from a slowly growing neo plasm.

Protocol for the Examination of Specimens From Patients With Tumors ... by Joseph E Parisi and Dylan V Miller and Philip J Boyer and Daniel J Brat and Elizabeth J Cochran and / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Malignant CNS tumors cause approximately 13,000 deaths per year, or about three-fourths of the new annual malignant cases.

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