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History and Symptoms

Although common symptoms of the disease include

• Seizure
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Headache
• Hemiparesis
• Progressive memory, personality, or neurological deficit due to temporal and frontal lobe involvement.
• The kind of symptoms produced depends highly on the location of the tumor, more so than on its pathological properties. The tumor can start producing symptoms quickly, but occasionally is asymptomatic until it reaches an enormous size. See Symptoms section in:

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