Beyin Urları: Retrospektif bir çalışma
Aşkın Görgülü, Sebahattin Çobanoğlu, Hakan Özsüer, Birol Yanık, M. Kemal Hamamcıoğlu, Cumhur Kılınçer
Article No:
9
Article Type :
Case Report
Ninety-four patients with brain tumor treated by surgical intervention at Neurosurgery Department of Trakya University Hospital between January 1995-January 2000 were evaluated retrospectively. Forty-eight of the cases were males and forty-six were females and mean age was 33.1. Eighty-four percent of all brain tumors were located in the supratentorial part and the rest of (16 %) the tumors were located in infratentorial part. The most frequent tumor type was astrocytic with 35.0 %. Meningioma (19 %) and metastatic tumors (12.7 %) were the next common tumors. Surgical treatment was performed in all tumors. The rate of total excision was 60.6 %. 46.8 % of the patients were discharged without any neurological deficit. The mortality rate was 9.6 %.
Keywords :
Brain tumor, infratentorial, supratentorial, surgery
Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
2000;13:56-64
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