histopathological study of 425 cases of intracranial tumor

despite many advances in the field of cancer treatment, intra-cranial tumor cases still have a poor prognosis. this research has been carried out in order to describe age and sex distributions and histopathological characteristics and site of intra-cranial tumors. we studied 425 patients with intra-cranial tumor whose samples were examined in pathology center of imam khomeini hospital from 1991 to 1996. the commonest types of tumors in our study were glial (28%) tumors and meningioma (27.76%). the commonest sites of tumors were cortex (30.6%), hypophysis (21.89%), and cerebellum (15.3%). among metastatic tumors of the brain, thyroid carcinoma was the most prevalent one (55.5%). the results of this study did not significantly contrast findings of other studies.