Table 3.
Symptoms by topography
| Symptoms | Topography | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total cases with symptom information (n = 722) | Brain stem (n = 68) | Cerebellum (n = 163) | Frontal lobe (n = 113) | Temporal lobe (n = 88) | Parietal lobe (n = 37) | Occipital lobe (n = 16) | Cerebral ventricles (n = 74) | Cerebral meninges (n = 24) | Cranial nerves (n = 21) | Overlapping lesion of brain (n = 76) | Other parts of braina (n = 42) | p-value comparing topographies | |
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||
| Headaches | 436 (60) | 45 (66) | 134 (82) | 48 (42) | 36 (41) | 18 (49) | 7 (44) | 57 (77) | 10 (42) | 9 (43) | 44 (58) | 28 (67) | < 0.01 |
| Nausea/vomiting | 277 (38) | 32 (47) | 103 (63) | 33 (29) | 15 (17) | 11 (30) | 3 (19) | 35 (47) | 1 (4) | 2 (10) | 28 (37) | 14 (33) | < 0.01 |
| Visual signs and symptoms | 217 (30) | 19 (28) | 48 (29) | 13 (12) | 12 (14) | 8 (22) | 6 (38) | 37 (50) | 16 (67) | 9 (43) | 30 (39) | 19 (45) | < 0.01 |
| Focal neurological signs and symptoms | 287 (40) | 44 (65) | 77 (47) | 36 (32) | 27 (31) | 9 (24) | 3 (19) | 24 (32) | 8 (33) | 8 (38) | 39 (51) | 12 (29) | < 0.01 |
| Cognitive, memory and behavioral change | 88 (12) | 9 (13) | 17 (10) | 9 (8) | 14 (16) | 5 (14) | 4 (25) | 9 (12) | 1 (4) | 2 (10) | 12 (16) | 6 (14) | 0.56 |
| Convulsions/seizures | 174 (24) | 2 (3) | 6 (4) | 57 (50) | 54 (61) | 16 (43) | 7 (44) | 8 (11) | 6 (25) | 1 (5) | 15 (20) | 2 (5) | < 0.01 |
| Altered consciousness | 101 (14) | 5 (7) | 14 (9) | 22 (19) | 23 (26) | 6 (16) | 2 (13) | 9 (12) | 2 (8) | 1 (5) | 12 (16) | 5 (12) | 0.01 |
| Dizziness | 141 (20) | 23 (34) | 48 (29) | 13 (12) | 10 (11) | 9 (24) | 2 (13) | 16 (22) | 2 (8) | 3 (14) | 10 (13) | 5 (12) | < 0.01 |
| Altered sensibility | 67 (9) | 9 (13) | 8 (5) | 8 (7) | 4 (5) | 4 (11) | 0 (0) | 13 (18) | 2 (8) | 7 (33) | 7 (9) | 5 (12) | < 0.01 |
| Asymptomatic | 27 (4) | 3 (4) | 6 (4) | 7 (6) | 1 (1) | 1 (3) | 1 (6) | 1 (1) | 1 (4) | 1 (5) | 3 (4) | 2 (5) | 0.86 |
Percentages by column; cases can have more than one symptom; aincluding brain NOS