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, , veillonella |
Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic | No underlying causes |
Neurologic | cavernous haemangioma |
Nutritional/Metabolic | No underlying causes |
Obstetric/Gynecologic | No underlying causes |
Oncologic | 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
Benign:Choroid plexus papilloma, central neurocytoma, dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor (DNET), ependymoma, filum terminale paraganglioma, meningiomamyxopapillary ependymoma, pineocytoma, subependymoma |
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 |