Brain Tumors: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Congenital malformations, deformities, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99).

  • Li-Fraumeni syndrome – autosomal dominant inherited disorder leading to multiple tumors (including astrocytomas).

Blood, blood-forming organs – immune system (D50-D90).

Cardiovascular system (I00-I99)

  • Chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) – hematoma (bruise) between the dura mater and the arachnoid membrane (spider membrane; middle meninges between the dura mater (hard meninges; outermost meninges) and the pia mater); clinical presentation: uncharacteristic complaints such as a feeling of pressure in the head, cephalgia (headache), vertigo (dizziness), restriction or loss of orientation and ability to concentrate
  • Vascular malformations in the brain
  • Intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding within the skull; parenchymal, subarachnoid, sub- and epidural, and supra- and infratentorial hemorrhage)/intracerebral hemorrhage (ICB; cerebral hemorrhage).
  • Intracerebral hematoma – accumulation of blood in the brain.
  • Sinus vein thrombosis (SVT) – occlusion of a cerebral sinus (large venous blood vessels of the brain arising from duraduplications) by a thrombus (blood clot); clinical presentation: headache, congestive papules, and epileptic seizures
  • Circumscribed cerebral atrophy (brain shrinkage).
  • Cerebrovascular insufficiency – circulatory disorders of the brain.

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48

  • Angioma – benign vascular neoplasm.
  • Cavernoma (synonyms: cavernous angioma, cavernous hemangioma): cerebral vascular malformation (in the brain).

Psyche – nervous system (F00-F99; G00-G99).

  • Arachnoid cysts – cavities in the brain filled with cerebrospinal fluid-like fluid.
  • Granulomas – nodule-like changes
  • Colloid cysts – cavities filled with colloid in the brain.