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THE FREQUENCY OF BRAIN GLIAL CELLS TUMORS BEFORE (1989-1990) AND AFTER THE WAR IN CROATIA (1998-1999)

The aim of this research is to find out whether the number of glial cells&#8217 ; tumors has increased after the war in Croatia or not. Data sources are biopsy registers of the Department of Clinical Pathology of Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital. Total number of brain tumors in 1989-90 came to 361. Out of them 11, 91% were metastatic, 36, 01% - benign and 52, 08% - malignant. Number of glial cells&#8217 ; tumors came to 175, which is 44, 48 % of total number. 62, 28% of them were malignant (astrocytoma gradus III, ependymoma anaplasticum, glioblastoma, glioma mixtum anaplasticum, oligodendroglioma anaplasticum), and 37, 72% (astrocytoma, astrocytoma pilocyticum, ependymoma, glioma mixtum, oligodendroglioma) were benign tumors. During the post- war period total number of all brain tumors comes to 317. 22, 08% of them are metastatics, 33, 43% are benign and 44, 47% are malignant. Out of all these tumors 117 are the glial cells&#8217 ; tumors which comes to 36, 91% of total number. Up to 76, 92% of all glial cells&#8217 ; tumors are malignant and only 23, 08% are benign. According to these results comparing the facts on the number of patients we can see that the number of all brain tumor patients decreased during the post-war period and the number of glial cells tumors as well. However, the fact, that there was a large number of patients from the entire territory of former Yugoslavia, and especially those from Bosnia and Herzegovina, which came to this Hospital, should be taken into consideration. Nowadays we only take patients from Croatia. The important fact for both periods is the proportion of benign and malignant tumors. Regarding all brain tumors it came to an increase of metastatic and malignant tumors. We also noticed a significant increase of malignant glial cells' tumors, which could be in relation with possible influence of war&#8217 ; s stress on frequent phenomenon of malignant primary brain tumors.

BRAIN GLIAL CELLS TUMORS

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