Brain mass causes

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Kiran Singh, M.D. [2]

Causes

Cardiovascular	No underlying causes
Chemical/Poisoning	No underlying causes
Dental	No underlying causes
Dermatologic	No underlying causes
Drug Side Effect	Almotriptan, Amphetamine, Beractant, Cocaine, Desogestrel and ethinyl estradiol, Iodixanol, Ixabepilone, Naratriptan, Omacetaxine, Pergolide, Phenylpropanolamine, Sumatriptan, Tipranavir
Ear Nose Throat	No underlying causes
Endocrine	No underlying causes
Environmental	No underlying causes
Gastroenterologic	No underlying causes
Genetic	No underlying causes
Hematologic	No underlying causes
Iatrogenic
Infectious Disease	Brain abscess: Bacteroides, Clostridium, Cryptococcus neoformans, Cysticercosis, Enterobacteriaceae, Escherichia coli, Eubacterium, Fusobacterium, Haemophilus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Listeria, Propionibacterium, Proteus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus, Veillonella
Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic	No underlying causes
Neurologic
Nutritional/Metabolic	No underlying causes
Obstetric/Gynecologic	No underlying causes
Oncologic	Benign:Acoustic neuroma, Cavernous angioma, Central neurocytoma, Choroid plexus papilloma, Craniopharyngioma, Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor(DNET), Ependymoma, Filum terminale paraganglioma, Meningioma, Myxopapillary ependymoma, Pineocytoma, Subependymoma Malignant: Anaplastic astrocytoma, Anaplastic ependymoma, Anaplastic oligoastrocytoma, Anaplastic oligodendroglioma, Atypical clear cell chordoid plexus carcinoma, Diffuse astrocytoma, Ganglioglioma, glioblastoma with oligodendroglioma component, Glioblastoma, Oligodendroglioma, Medulloblastoma, Oligoastrocytoma, Pilocytic astrocytoma, Pineoblastoma, Supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor(PNET), Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor Metastatic brain tumor:Breast cancer, Colon carcinoma, Hypernephroma, Lung cancer, Malignant melanoma, Skin cancer
Ophthalmologic	No underlying causes
Overdose/Toxicity	No underlying causes
Psychiatric	No underlying causes
Pulmonary	No underlying causes
Renal/Electrolyte	No underlying causes
Rheumatology/Immunology/Allergy	No underlying causes
Sexual	No underlying causes
Trauma	Cephalhematoma, Epidural hematoma, Intracerebral hemorrhage, Subarachnoid hematoma, Subdural hematoma
Urologic	No underlying causes
Miscellaneous	No underlying causes