Brain tumour- Meningioma
Madam Y has been complaining of headaches and feels like the surrounding was spinning around her. Being a 76 years old female, she brushed it off as she was aging. She went for multiple visits to the doctors and she was treated as headache, vertigo, high blood pressure and etc.
One day she fell down the stairs and was brought to the hospital. An MRI scan was ordered to rule out bleeding, but a frontal meningioma was incidentally discovered.
Meningioma is the most common type of tumor that forms in the head. It is typically a slow-growing tumor that forms from the meninges, the membranous layers surrounding the brain and spinal cord. It may compress or squeeze the adjacent brain, nerves and vessels.
Thankfully the tumor was small and far from critical structures in the brain. She had the option to go for brain surgery or Gamma Knife radiosurgery. She opted for radiosurgery as it was noninvasive, no prolonged hospital stay and cheaper than brain surgery.
She just completed her treatment this morning and was discharged home asymptomatic and well.
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