Oedema
This refers to the surrounding ‘water-logging’ of brain that inevitably occurs adjacent to high grade primary brain tumours, and often around other tumour types such as metastases.
Many of the neurological problems found at presentation of a brain tumour may be due to defective brain function in the region of the oedema (and not irreversible brain damage) and hence potentially reversible.
Many of the neurological problems found at presentation of a brain tumour may be due to defective brain function in the region of the oedema (and not irreversible brain damage) and hence potentially reversible.
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