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DEAR DR. ROACH: My mother was diagnosed with right frontal lobe meningioma 17 years ago when she was 83 years old. Surgery was successful in that most of it was ...
Changes in headache patterns, persistent nausea or vomiting, and blurred vision can be warning signs of a brain tumor that should not be ignored. A brain tumor is a mass of abnormal cells that ...
These tumors were found in her left frontal lobe, which is linked to depressive symptoms. In the case report published in BMJ Case Reports , doctors found the patient had meningiomatosis or ...
T1-weighted axial MRI. Note the large mass in the deep left frontal lobe with central necrosis and surrounding edema. Also note the prominent enhancement with gadolinium. Biopsy showed glioblastoma ...
He blurts out, “You were right, you do have a brain tumor.” The MRI showed it was the size of an egg and located in the frontal lobe, where executive functioning lives. The tumor grew so large ...
Within a week of the mysterious headache, South had an MRI of the brain and was sitting across from a neurosurgeon who broke the news: He had a tumor on his right frontal lobe — which controls ...
This kind of dementia involves a shrinking of the brain in the frontal lobe and/or the temporal lobe. Those are not the same areas where Alzheimer's is found; it is in the parietal lobe in the ...
Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Tumors of the Frontal Lobes; With Special Reference to a Case with Predominant Symptoms of a Neurasthenic Type ...