Sandeep Pai1, Shreesha Khandige2
BACKGROUND
Primary brain tumours do not spread to other body sites, and can be malignant or benign. Secondary brain tumours are always malignant. Both types are potentially disabling and life threatening. There are a number of distinct types of brain cancers within the brain, and the treatments and their outcomes vary greatly based on pathologic and histologic diagnosis. Embryonal tumours are the least studied tumours. So a study was done in our institution to understand the same
METHODS
One hundred cases of brain tumours that have turned up in the Department of Medicine, A. J. Shetty Institute of Medical Sciences, Mangalore.
RESULTS
In the present study embryonal tumours constituted 1(8.33%) of Neuroepithelial tumours. This tumour occurred in Paediatric age group.
CONCLUSION
The embryonal tumour forms a very small share of Intra-cranial tumours. The future of the study is very good and further studies has to be done to understand the demographic patterns of the disease.
