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,Beractant, Desogestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol, Iodixanol, Ixabepilone, Naratriptan, Omacetaxine, Tipranavir
Ear Nose Throat No underlying causes
Endocrine No underlying causes
Environmental No underlying causes
Gastroenterologic No underlying causes
Genetic No underlying causes
Hematologic No underlying causes
Iatrogenic Cephalhematoma
Infectious Disease Brain abscess':Bacteroides, clostridium, cryptococcus neoformans, cysticercosis, enterobacteriaceae, escherichia coli, eubacterium, fusobacterium, haemophilus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Listeria, propionibacterium, proteus, pseudomonas aeruginosa, staphylococcus aureus, streptococcus, toxoplasma gondii, veillonella
Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic No underlying causes
Neurologic No underlying causes
Nutritional/Metabolic No underlying causes
Obstetric/Gynecologic No underlying causes
Oncologic Primary brain tumors

Astrocytic tumors Pilocytic astrocytoma, diffuse astrocytoma, anaplastic astrocytoma, glioblastoma.

Oligodendroglial and oligoastrocytic tumors Oligodendroglioma, anaplastic oligodendroglioma, oligoastrocytoma, anaplastic oligoastrocytoma, glioblastoma with oligodendroglioma component.

Ependymal tumors Subependymoma, myxopapillary ependymoma, ependymoma, anaplastic ependymoma.

Choroid plexus tumors Choroid plexus papilloma, choroid plexus carcinoma.

Neuronal and mixed neuronal-glial tumors Ganglioglioma*Central neurocytoma, filum terminale paraganglioma, dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor (DNET).

Pineal parenchymal tumors Pineocytoma, pineoblastoma.

Embryonal tumors Medulloblastoma, supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET), atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor.

Meningeal tumors Meningioma, atypical, clear cell, chordoid, rhabdoid, papillary, or anaplastic (malignant).


Secondary tumors and non-tumor lesions

Lung cancer, skin cancer, malignant melanoma, hypernephroma, breast cancer, colon carcinoma.

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, subarachnoid hematoma, subdural hematoma
Urologic No underlying causes
Miscellaneous No underlying causes


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