CNS Tumours, 5th MBBS, ESUCOM

A 62-year-old man presents with progressive headache, personality change, and seizures. MRI shows a high-grade supratentorial glial tumour. Which of the following is the commonest malignant primary brain tumour in adults?

1. Meningioma
2. Medulloblastoma
3. Glioblastoma
4. Schwannoma

Which of the following CNS tumours is the most common benign primary brain tumour in adults?

1. Astrocytoma
2. Meningioma
3. Ependymoma
4. Medulloblastoma

Regarding sex distribution of CA 10-year-old child presents with headache, vomiting, ataxia, and hydrocephalus. Imaging reveals an infratentorial posterior fossa tumour. Which statement is TRUE regarding CNS tumour location in children?NS tumours, which of the following is CORRECT?

1. Most childhood CNS tumours are supratentorial
2. Childhood CNS tumours are commonly spinal
3. Most childhood CNS tumours are infratentorial
4. CNS tumours rarely occur in children

Which of the following hereditary syndromes is associated with vestibular schwannoma?

1. Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
2. Neurofibromatosis type 2
3. Li-Fraumeni syndrome
4. MEN-1 syndrome

A patient develops visual disturbance, galactorrhoea, and acromegaly. Which anatomical region is most likely affected?

1. Frontal lobe
2. Occipital lobe
3. Sellar region
4. Parietal lobe

Which lobe lesion is most associated with receptive aphasia?

1. Frontal lobe
2. Temporal lobe
3. Parietal lobe
4. Occipital lobe