Astrocytoma differential diagnosis
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Fahimeh Shojaei, M.D.
Overview
Differentiating astrocytoma from other Diseases
| Diseases | Clinical manifestations | Para-clinical findings | Gold standard | Additional findings | ||||||||||||
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| Symptoms | Physical examination | |||||||||||||||
| Lab Findings | Imaging | Histopathology | ||||||||||||||
| Headache | Seizure | Visual disturbance | Hearing loss | Constitutional | Extraocular movement disorder | Hydrocephaly | Focal neurologic deficit | EPO | Prolactin | CT scan | MRI | |||||
| Adult primary brain tumors | Glioblastoma multiform | |||||||||||||||
| Oligodendroglioma | ||||||||||||||||
| Meningioma | ||||||||||||||||
| Hemangioblastoma | ||||||||||||||||
| Pitutary adenoma | ||||||||||||||||
| Schwannoma | ||||||||||||||||
| primary CNS lymphoma | ||||||||||||||||
| Childhood primary brain tumors | Pilocytic astrocytoma | |||||||||||||||
| Medulloblastoma | ||||||||||||||||
| Ependymoma | ||||||||||||||||
| Craniopharyngioma | ||||||||||||||||
| Pinealoma | ||||||||||||||||
| Vascular | AV malformation | |||||||||||||||
| Brain aneurysm | ||||||||||||||||
| Infectious | Bacterial brain abscess | |||||||||||||||
| Tuberculosis | ||||||||||||||||
| Toxoplasmosis | ||||||||||||||||
| Hydatid cyst | ||||||||||||||||
| Fungal | ||||||||||||||||
| Other | Brain metastasis | |||||||||||||||