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Clinical symptoms of benign brain tumours
no. PP01
Poster papers
Introduction. Early recognition of symptoms is important in diagnosing brain tumours. Aim. To assess the most common symptoms of different benign brain tumours. Materials and methods. Medical data of all cases with benign brain tumours diagnosed in 2015 were collected form the Brain tumour database and medical records at Kauno klinikos, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. Statistical analysis was performed by using Microsoft Excel and SPSS 23.0 software. Results. Study group consisted of 130 cases, 84 (64.6%) female and 46 (35.5%) male (p<0.001), mean age 57.4±15.4 years. Meningioma was diagnosed in 91 (70.0%), hypophysis adenoma in 21 (16.2%), schwannoma in 10 (7.7%), other rare tumours in 8 (6.2%) cases. The clinical symptoms recorded (in isolation or combined) were headache (67; 51.4%; as a single symtom in 23, 34.3% cases), epileptic seizures (22; 16.9%), imbalance (18; 13.9%), vision problems (22; 16.9%), extremity weakness/numbness (13; 10.0%), hearing lioss 10 (7.7%), speech disorder (6; 4.6%), endocrinopathy (5; 3.9%). [...].