6 major clinical manifestations of benign brain tumors

Benign brain tumors refer to tumors with good tissue differentiation, slow growth, and are mostly curable. The main symptoms are headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, papilledema, decreased vision, and blindness.

1. Headache: Headache is the earliest and most common symptom of brain tumor. It is intermittent at first, and is more common and severe in the morning when waking up and at night. Headache can be aggravated by coughing, exerting force, sneezing, leaning over, or lowering the head.

2. Dizziness: Children with brain tumors may not have headaches but only experience dizziness because their skulls are not closed and the cranial sutures separate when the intracranial pressure increases.

3. Nausea and vomiting: Brain tumor patients often experience severe headaches accompanied by nausea and vomiting. The vomiting is often projectile. In severe cases, the patient cannot eat and will vomit after eating.

4. Papilledema: When the patient's intracranial pressure increases, it often manifests as papilledema. It does not affect vision in the early stages, and visual field examination shows an enlargement of the physiological blind spot.

5. Decreased vision: If papilledema persists for weeks or months, the patient's optic nerve begins to atrophy, vision loss may occur, and the visual field will shrink centripetally.

6. Blindness: The vision of brain tumor patients decreases sharply. Once paroxysmal amaurosis occurs, it will quickly lead to blindness. Even if the intracranial hypertension is relieved, the vision often does not improve.

Special reminder: Although benign brain tumors can be cured, some tumors are located deep and are surrounded by many important structures. If they are large when discovered, surgery cannot completely remove them and a good prognosis cannot be achieved. Therefore, if any abnormal symptoms are found, you must go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible to avoid delaying the disease.