Cerebellar Presents with disequilibrium, ataxia of trunk Treatment is surgical. May be associated with retinal and spinal vascular lesions, polycythemia, and hypernephromas. Prognosis depends on histopathologic findings and extent of tumor. May present at any age but usually in childhood, with endocrine dysfunction and bitemporal field defects. Subsequent symptoms may include translabyrinthine surgery, craniectomy, tinnitus, headache, vertigo, facial weakness or or a combined approach.
Outcome is numbness, and long-tract signs.
Most sensitive screening tests are MRI and brain stem auditory evoked potential. Tumor may recur compresses rather than invades adjacent neural if removal is incomplete. Increasingly common with advancing age. Tumor size varies greatly. Tumor is usually benign and readily detected by CT scanning Primary cerebral Associated with AIDS and other Treatment is by whole-brain lymphoma immunodeficient states.