Demographic Characteristics of Patients with Intracranial Lesions Reporting To a Tertiary Care Hospital at Rajasthan
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research Professionals - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: The recent advances in brain tumor imaging offer unique anatomical as well as pathophysiological information that provides new insights on brain tumors, directed at facilitating therapeutic decisions and providing information regarding the prognosis. The aim of the present study was to determine the demographic characteristics of subjects with intracranial reporting to the tertiary care centre. Methods: The present prospective study was conducted in the department of Radiodiagnosis, in different Radio diagnostic centers & medical institute. All the patients were given a predesigned proforma to fill. Complete medical history was obtained. Patient’s demographics were also obtained. Results: Majority of subjects were between 20-39 years of age. There were 43% subjects in these age groups. There were 18% (n=12) subjects less than 20 years of age. Majority of subjects were males. There were 60% (n=39) males and 40% (n=26) females in the study. Conclusion: From the above study we can conclude that the most common age group of intracranial space occupying lesions was 20 to 35 years, with male-to-female ratio of 3:2.
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Ashish Gupta, Sunil Kast
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- DOI 10.21276/ijmrp.2018.4.1.009
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