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What causes 'false brain tumour'?

Mar 26, 201510 min
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Episode description

Sometimes, adults or children experience the symptoms of a brain tumour - headaches and vision problems - without an actual tumour. The formal name for this mysterious condition is Pseudotumor Cerebri Syndrome. Shana McCormack thinks that insights from kidney biology might help us to understand it. She's our podcast guest this month.

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