Tumor of lateral cerebral ventricle Symptoms

Cerebral ventricle is the brain cavity that contains cerebrospinal fluid, so the clinical manifestations depend on the tumor size and location, and only when the tumor blocking the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid pathway, or when the tumor around the brain tissue, can arise corresponding symptoms and signs, such as intracranial hypertension and lesions.

The common symptoms of lateral cerebral ventricle Tumor include Intracranial hypertension (headache), positioning signs, Mental disorders, Optic papilla change, Seizures.

1. Intracranial hypertension. Intracerebroventricular tumor is small or when the cycle of disruption caused by cerebrospinal fluid, the patient may be completely without any apparent symptoms. Cerebrospinal fluid circulation occurs when obstacles (holes between rooms blocked some intraventricular obstruction), and intracranial hypertension appeared, clinically manifested as a headache. Headache is the first symptom for most patients, according to data in order to headache symptoms as the first lateral ventricle tumors account for about 92.5% of patients. Often show paroxysmal headache, intermittent or paroxysmal increase. When the room between the holes or intraventricular part of (the next corner or angle) when the blockage caused by obstructive hydrocephalus, due to the rapid expansion of the ventricle, often unbearable headache patients, headache patients with severe nausea and vomiting. Some patients may be due to a sudden increase in intracranial pressure have lead to coma or even death herniation. Tumor in the side of the indoor activities have a certain degree, offen showed sudden valve-like obstruction of cerebrospinal fluid circulation pathway, resulting in acute increase of intracranial pressure, which is attack the causes of headache. When the body or head position due to changes in the situation so that the lifting of intraventricular obstruction, the patient can quickly stop the headache. Such as re-obstruction, then the recurrence of headaches, such attacks could be repeated many times. Therefore a small number of patients in each attack from time to time before the amount of flexion was hit or prone position.

Severe headache patients often tonic spasm or the formation of brain death. Intracranial hypertension due to long-term vision loss patients, children may have increased symptoms of the head.

2. Focal symptoms. Known as the positioning signs, when the tumor volume is not of oppression or violation of the smaller surrounding brain tissue did not produce any signs of positioning. Due to the continuous growth of tumors in different parts of the structure of oppression around the brain or damage arising from a variety of symptoms and signs of brain damage. Involving the internal capsule can be tumor, basal ganglia, but also to the growing brain, which patients or single-limb-body type of paralysis and sensory disturbance, as well as the contralateral lesions less central facial paralysis, such as Homonymous hemianopia. If the left temporal, parietal, occipital junction have been violated, the patient will appear agnosia and aphasia. Periventricular organizations involved and the clinical symptoms arising from the severity of the intracranial pressure with regular changes. When a serious increase in intracranial pressure, the symptoms become apparent, intracranial pressure may drop temporarily eased.

3. Mental disorders. Intracranial hypertension patients with varying degrees of psychiatric symptoms. Comparison of the general symptoms of mild clinical manifestations as decreased memory, whole body weak and slow in reacting to the surrounding and so make them apathetic.

4. Optic papilla change. Intracranial hypertension in the early stage, the patient showed optic papilla water species, showed clear optic papilla border, the disappearance of physiological depression, and sometimes there are small radial vascular shadow, sheet-like villi were corporations and venous blood vessels fluctuations. Late the performance of secondary optic atrophy, vision loss and even blindness patients. This is intracranial hypertension caused by long-term results. Visually impaired patients often had sex before the emergence of a black that is, before daybreak paroxysmal black eyes, this is going to signal the emergence of vision loss.

5. Seizures. Lateral ventricle tumors can occur when a small number of patients with epilepsy, generally considered by the intracranial hypertension caused by clinically manifested as grand mal, tonic spasm of a sexual attack, there is no location significance.