Welcome. My name is Devine. This is episode 516 of the Devine Intervention

Podcasts. Into these podcasts I'm going to be addressing a topic that I'd like to call brain tumors. In fact, I guess I'll call this the clutch brain tumor podcast.

This is one of these podcasts where there are two things that's going to help you.

Number one is the presentation. Number two, at the key facts to know.

So presentation key facts to know.

And then every now and then they kind of throw in some weird integration of the other.

So I'm going to try to hit those as we go.

So what if they give you a question about a patient?

They tell you that he's a 55 year old guy and that for the last two three months

he has been having severe,

progressively worsening headaches.

And then you're told that over the last week,

he has vomited three or four times

upon a weakening in the morning.

And then, you're told that it was brought to the emergency

hero because he had a generalized tonic chronic seizure that lasted for two minutes.

If you see something like this, I hope you're saying divine, this is a brain tumor.

This is a brain tumor. And the thing is, the way I have framed, the best way to understand the brain tumors is as follows right so I think the

first thing you need to realize is that there is this thin this door fold that essentially separates the bottom of your occipital lobe from the top of your cerebellum. We're going to see this again.

The bottom of your cipital lobe in the brain, which is obviously in the back, is separated

from the top of your cerebellum by something called the tentarium cerebelli. Literally

look at the name tentarium cerebelli is like a tent of the cerebellum so

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