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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sujit Routray, M.D. [2]
Overview
History
Symptoms
- 60-75% of patients with intracerebral metastases may be asymptomatic.[1]
- Symptoms of intracerebral metastases include:[1][2][3]
Patients with brain mets have a mean survival of one month without treatment. With treatment, survival improves, but it is still dismal. The mean age of survival is still less than one year.
Physical Examination
mental status changes, ataxia, altered level of consciousness, papilledema,
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Clinical presentation of brain metastases. Dr Bruno Di Muzio and Dr Trent Orton et al. Radiopaedia 2015. http://radiopaedia.org/articles/brain-metastases. Accessed on November 9, 2015
- ↑ Symptoms of brain metastases. Wikipedia 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_metastasis. Accessed on November 9, 2015
- ↑ Symptoms of metastatic brain tumor. US national library of medicine 2015. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000769.htm. Accessed on November 9, 2015