What are the main types of brain tumors?
Browse the list below to learn more about specific types of brain tumors and related conditions:
- Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak
- Chondroma
- Chondrosarcoma
- Chordoma
- Choroid plexus tumor (in children)
- Colon cancer and metastatic brain tumors
- Convexity meningioma
- Craniopharyngioma (in adults)
- Craniopharyngioma in children
- Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor (in children)
- Encephaloceles
- Ependymoma
- Ependymoma (in children)
- Esthesioneuroblastoma
- Giant cell tumor
- Germ cell tumor
- Gliomas (in adults):
- Astrocytoma
- Brain stem glioma
- Ependymoma
- Glioblastoma multiforme
- Mixed glioma
- Oligodendroglioma
- Optic nerve glioma
- Gliomas in children:
- Medulloblastoma (in children)
- Melanoma (skin cancer) and metastatic brain tumors
- Meningioma
- Convexity meningioma
- Skull base meningioma
- Metastatic brain tumors
- Mixed glioma
- Olfactory neuroblastoma (esthesioneuroblastoma)
- Oligodendroglioma
- Optic nerve glioma (in adults)
- Optic nerve glioma in children
- Osteoma