The Profile Of Brain Tumor Cases In Rsud Dr Soetomo From The Period 2015-2018
Brain tumor is a condition affecting many people worldwide.One of the most common brain tumors are meningioma, glioblastoma, astrocytoma and many types of metasases tumors.Patients often have similar functional neurological symptoms even if the type of tumors are entirely different.Some of the n...
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| Summary: | Brain tumor is a condition affecting many people worldwide.One of
the most common brain tumors are meningioma, glioblastoma, astrocytoma
and many types of metasases tumors.Patients often have similar functional
neurological symptoms even if the type of tumors are entirely different.Some
of the neurological symptoms are tingling in the feet, changes in
eyesight,tremors in the extremities, headaches or migraines and more.Patients
who suffer from brain tumor need to go through a screening process to
identify the cause of the problem.Scanners such as CT scan and MRI scan will
be used to detect any abnormalities in the brain.The gold standard being
MRI.The factors such as age and gender are also observed which may affect
the data distribution of brain tumors.This study aims to find the data
distribution of the brain tumor cases in RSUD Dr Soetomo.Results:The results
obtained shows that the highest brain tumor found is Meningioma followed by
unspecified brain neoplasm as the second highest and adenoma being the third
highest tumor type found in RSUD Dr Soetomo.The total number of female
patients with brain tumor is higher than that of males at a ratio of 1.98:1.The
median age for the patients is 45.00.The mode age is 50.The highest number
of tumor cases are seen in the adult age group followed by teens, children and
elderly.The benign tumor type is found to be higher in number as compared to
malignant.The number of supratentorial tumors are also found to be higher
than infratentorial overall. |
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