Prospective Study of Intra Cranial Tumour

Abstract

Background and objective: A brain tumor or intracranial neoplasm occurs when abnormal cells from within the brain. There are two main types of tumors: malignant or cancerous tumors and benign tumors.1 Cancerous tumors can be divided into primary tumors that started within the brain and those that spread from somewhere else known as brain metastasis tumors.2
Method: Fifty cases of intracranial tumours were studied These tumours were studied for their pathology, incidence in relation to age group, sex and sites of occurence.
Results: Histopathological examination of these tumours revealed that astrocytomas(28%) and meningiomas (22%) comprised a large majority of the total number of tumours. The incidence of each type of the tumour in the present study is compared to the incidence in other large published series.
Conclusion: The average age of the patients from whom the material was obtained was 42.99 years in our study. The highest incidence age group of astrocytoma which formed the majority of the total tumours in our study was 4th declade.There were 46% males and 54% females in our study, the female incidence being higher due to preponderance of meningiomas and Schwannomas in them.We found 64% supratentorial and 36% infra-tentorial lesions in our study. Intra operative squash preparations play an important role in early diagnosis of the tumours.