title: Early diagnosis of brain tumors.
abstract: Early diagnosis is essential to successful treatment of a brain tumor. Early general signs, such as headache, seizures and psychologic changes, are followed by specific localizing signs that can be elicited by meticulous neurologic examination. A computed tomographic scan should be obtained long before signs of increased intracranial pressure appear. New modes of treatment have increased both the length and the quality of survival.
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007427:Intracranial Pressure; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D008579:Meningioma / Q000209:etiology; D027383:Papillomaviridae; D027382:Polyomaviridae; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014412:Tumor Virus Infections / Q000150:complications; D014481:United States