BRAIN TUMOUR HEADACHE AND THEIRPREVALENCE

The brain tumors arise inside the cranial cavity from brain tissue and surrounding meninges. The tumors are responsible for increase mortality in general population building a pressure in the health care system of many countries. This study is performed to enlighten the prevalence of brain tumor with headache as their presenting symptom. This is a retrospective study of patients with brain tumour. The data is collected from the patient’s case file of Hospital University Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia available from 2013 to 2018. A total of 138 patients were selected for the study. Out of them 77 patients with brain tumour headache were included in the study. The age group was considered from 5th year of life to 65 years and above. The analysis is performed by SPSS version 23. The tumours are categorized as intra-axial and extra-axial. Under intra-axial tumour, 10 patients of glioblastoma and metastatic brain tumour encountered headache which is highest among intra-axial tumours. Meningiomas are the top most extra-axial tumour precipitated headache. About 25 patients of this tumour are detected encountering headache. The headache associated with tumour temporal lobe accounts 16 patients. The frontal lobe tumour (14 patients) is second commonest producing headache. The Kruskal Wallis H test shows a significant difference between brain tumour, gender and location. A correct diagnosis is very important for treatment of brain tumor. One of the tools for accurate treatment is their presenting symptoms.