Imagenological characterization by Computerized Axial Tomography of the primary intracranial tumors

A descriptive observational study to 56 patients with imagenological diagnosis of primary intracranial neoplasia attended in the service of imagenology of the Provincial Docent Hospital 'Dr. Antonio Luaces Iraola' was carried out from March 1st 2006 to February 1st 2008, with the aim of characterizing these injuries by Computerized Axial Tomography and establishing an evaluation with the histological diagnosis. A questionnaire with the following variables was applied: sex, presuntive age, clinic, topographical characteristics (location, size, tumoral density, changes with administration of the resistance, calcifications, effect of mass and evaluation of the imagenological diagnosis with the histological diagnosis. Masculine sex and the group of ages of 60 are more predominated. The more frequent clinical manifestations were migraine, convulsions, difficulty to walk and vertigo. The size of the injury that prevailed was of 5, 9 and 2, 1 cm with supratentorial location. The majority of primary intracranial neoplasms were hypodense, and enhancement of the injuries with the administration of the resistance was observed. The mass effect bears a close relation with the location and size of the injury. The imagenological diagnosis fitted in with the histological one, being the gliomas the more frequent histological type