Brain mass causes
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Kiran Singh, M.D. [2]
Overview
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,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 | Cephalhematoma |
| 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, toxoplasma gondii, veillonella |
| Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic | No underlying causes |
| Neurologic | Craniopharyngioma, cavernous haemangioma |
| Nutritional/Metabolic | No underlying causes |
| Obstetric/Gynecologic | No underlying causes |
| Oncologic | Primary brain tumors
Astrocytic tumors: Pilocytic astrocytoma, diffuse astrocytoma, anaplastic astrocytoma, glioblastoma. Oligodendroglial and oligoastrocytic tumors:Oligodendroglioma, anaplastic oligodendroglioma, oligoastrocytoma, anaplastic oligoastrocytoma, glioblastoma with oligodendroglioma component. Ependymal tumors: Subependymoma, myxopapillary ependymoma, ependymoma, anaplastic ependymoma. Choroid plexus tumors: Choroid plexus papilloma, choroid plexus carcinoma. Neuronal and mixed neuronal-glial tumors: Ganglioglioma, central neurocytoma, filum terminale paraganglioma, dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor (DNET). Pineal parenchymal tumors: Pineocytoma, pineoblastoma. Embryonal tumors: Medulloblastoma, supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET), atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor. Meningeal tumors: Meningioma, atypical clear cell chordoid, rhabdoid, papillary, or anaplastic (malignant).
Lung cancer, skin cancer, malignant melanoma, hypernephroma, breast cancer, colon carcinoma. |
| 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 |