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.
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