Brain mass causes

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Kiran Singh, M.D. [2]

Overview

Causes

Cardiovascular No underlying causes
Chemical/Poisoning No underlying causes
Dental No underlying causes
Dermatologic No underlying causes
Drug Side Effect Almotriptan, Amphetamine, Beractant, Cocaine, Desogestrel and ethinyl estradiol, Iodixanol, Ixabepilone, Naratriptan, Omacetaxine, Pergolide, Phenylpropanolamine, Sumatriptan, Tipranavir
Ear Nose Throat No underlying causes
Endocrine No underlying causes
Environmental No underlying causes
Gastroenterologic No underlying causes
Genetic Arachnoid cyst
Hematologic No underlying causes
Iatrogenic
Infectious Disease Brain abscess: Actinomyces, Bacteroides, Candida, Cladosporium trichoides, Clostridium, Coccidioides immitis, Corynebacterium, Cryptococcus neoformans, Curvularia, E. Coli, Entamoeba histolytica, Enterobacter, Enterobacteriaceae, Eubacterium, Fusobacterium, Haemophilus, Klebsiella, Listeria, Nocardia asteroides, Paragonimus, Peptococcus, Prevotella, Propionibacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella, Schistosoma japonicum, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus, Streptococcus milleri, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Taenia solium, Toxoplasma gondii, Veillonella, viridans streptococci
Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic No underlying causes
Neurologic
Nutritional/Metabolic No underlying causes
Obstetric/Gynecologic No underlying causes
Oncologic Benign: Acoustic neuroma, Cavernous angioma, Central neurocytoma, Choroid plexus papilloma, Craniopharyngioma, Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor(DNET), Ependymoma, Filum terminale paraganglioma, Meningioma, Myxopapillary ependymoma, Pineocytoma, Pituitary adenoma, Subependymoma

Malignant: Anaplastic astrocytoma, Anaplastic ependymoma, Anaplastic oligoastrocytoma, Anaplastic oligodendroglioma, Atypical clear cell chordoid plexus carcinoma, Diffuse astrocytoma, Ganglioglioma, glioblastoma with oligodendroglioma component, Glioblastoma, Oligodendroglioma, Medulloblastoma, Oligoastrocytoma, Pilocytic astrocytoma, Pineoblastoma, Primary CNS Lymphoma, Supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor(PNET), Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor

Metastatic brain tumor: Breast cancer, Colon carcinoma, Hypernephroma, Lung cancer, Malignant melanoma, Skin cancer

Ophthalmologic No underlying causes
Overdose/Toxicity No underlying causes
Psychiatric No underlying causes
Pulmonary No underlying causes
Renal/Electrolyte No underlying causes
Rheumatology/Immunology/Allergy No underlying causes
Sexual No underlying causes
Trauma Cephalhematoma, Epidural hematoma, Intra-axial hematoma, Subarachnoid hematoma, Subdural hematoma
Urologic No underlying causes
Miscellaneous No underlying causes


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