Abstract

MARTIN MARTINEZ, Yaquelines et al. Value of computerized axial tomography for the diagnosis of supratentorial brain tumors . MEDISAN [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.2, pp. 237-305. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in 94 patients with supratentorial brain tumors, hospitalized in the Department of Neurosurgery of "Saturnino Lora Torres" Provincial Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, from January 2009 to February 2011, in order to demonstrate the value of computerized axial tomography in the diagnosis of these lesions. Among the analyzed variables were symptoms and signs at onset of the disease, primary site of the lesion, involvement of adjacent structures and topographic interpretation, and the correlation between the presumptive diagnosis by means of computerized axial tomography and pathological findings. Females aged 45-54 years, headache as predominant symptom, glioblastoma multiforme as the most frequent tumor, and brain hemispheres as the most affected sites prevailed in the case material, accompanied by the mass effect as tumor-related injury. Also, supratentorial tumors were mostly characterized by hypodense images. Furthermore, it was found an adequate diagnostic and pathological correlation

Keywords : brain tumor; computerized axial tomography; tomographic correlation; Department of Neurosurgery; secondary health care.

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