Common misunderstanding of the diagnosis of brain cancer

Common misunderstanding of the diagnosis of brain cancer have?

1, cerebellar or brainstem tumors misdiagnosed as cervical spondylosis

Cerebellar or brainstem tumor usually presents with dizziness, neck discomfort and numbness misdiagnosed as cervical spondylosis. Patients often use drugs, improper treatment of cervical traction and Chinese massage, delay the disease. This is a common misunderstanding of the diagnosis of brain cancer.

2, acoustic neuroma misdiagnosed as nerve deafness

The mainly acoustic neuromas early tinnitus, hearing loss, easily overlooked. A considerable part of the patient first treatment in otolaryngology, often diagnosed as nerve deafness, so because of the misunderstanding of the diagnosis of brain tumors delayed tumor treatment, such cases are more common in the elderly.

3, the elderly brain tumor misdiagnosed as cerebrovascular disease glioma

Similar clinical manifestations of brain tumors and cerebrovascular disease, old people the personality behavior change, such as unresponsive, thinking logic chaos, defecating and urinating, lazy life, memory loss, slurred speech, and even hemiplegia is often misdiagnosed as cerebral arteriosclerosis and cerebral thrombosis, elderly brain tumor diagnosis misunderstanding.

4, pituitary tumor misdiagnosed as eye disease or endocrine disease

Only vision loss in patients with pituitary tumors are generally initially on governance in ophthalmology, a considerable part of the patients had treatment of retinal diseases such as optic neuritis, optic atrophy, while the performance of the menopause, lactation pituitary tumor patients often go to gynecological, breast Branch or Department of Endocrinology, diagnosis and treatment. Do head CT or MRI only if not satisfied with the treatment effect or further aggravate the condition, at a time because of the brain tumor diagnosis errors, the tumor has a long and large, has caused great difficulties to the treatment. This is a common misunderstanding of the diagnosis of brain cancer.