What question did this study set out to answer?

To evaluate the incidence and characteristics of brain tumours in elderly patients over a seven-year period.

January 1, 1978

Brain Tumours in the Elderly

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To evaluate the incidence and characteristics of brain tumours in elderly patients over a seven-year period.
Analyzed admission records in a geriatric department over seven years, capturing incidence rates.
Reviewed histological types of tumours and associated clinical histories of symptomatic cases.
Cerebral tumour incidence was 0.9% of all admissions in the geriatric department.
Tumour types and distributions were comparable to those found in younger adults.
Only 0.4% of stroke diagnoses were later found to be cerebral tumours.

Abstract

The incidence of cerebral tumour in a geriatric department over a seven-year period was 0.9% of all admissions. The distribution of benign, malignant and secondary brain tumours and their histological types were similar to those of younger adults. Apart from small asymptomatic tumours found incidentally at post mortem, most symptomatic tumours were recognized from their characteristic history. In particular, only 0.4% of patients diagnosed as stroke were subsequently found to have a cerebral tumour.

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