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Our team uses a variety of diagnostic tests to obtain information about a brain tumor. We perform neurological exams to check mental status and memory, cranial nerve function (sight, hearing, smell, tongue and facial movement), muscle strength, coordination, reflexes and response to pain.
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The 2009 Midwest Regional Brain Tumor Conference
Ameer's Story: Pituitary Tumor
Ameer's friends noticed the weight loss, and they kept asking him about it. Was he OK? Ameer wasn’t concerned at first. Then he began to notice that he couldn’t see people approaching him from the side. His peripheral vision was deteriorating. The third symptom landed him in the hospital. After getting up unusually late one morning and putting his shirt on backwards, he suffered a seizure. “Something was clearly wrong, and I knew I had to sit down,” Ameer recalls
