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What Are The Survival Chances In A Late Twenties Person Who S Been Operated For Frontal Lobe Tumour?
what is the life expetancy of a 28 year old male patient, weight 60 kgss... he has been operated for left frontal lobe tumor...pre op MRI REPORT reads: intraaxial ill defined moderate sized Inhomogeneous SOL in left frontal lobe also showing extension in right fronal lobe with possible involvement of the rostrum of corpus callosum showing small areas of intralesional heammorrhage/ calcification with moderae perilesional doema and mass effect. MRI findings sggestive of glioma Post op histopath: Basaloid Squamous cell Carcinoma IHC: tumr cells are positive for CK, focal positive for NSE, CHROMOGRANIN, ACTH and nuerofil are absent
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This tumour is likely to be metastatic from some other place so life expectancy will depend upon location of primary if there is no primary then it depends on hw much tumour was removed plz send post op scans
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