Patho Question

[JKuhaneck]

Im in nursing school and I would like to do a patho on astrocytoma. The patient I was given in clinical was diagnosed with it but this particular person also had been noted to have encephalomalacia present in the posterior right temporal lobe depicting mild volume loss and small vessel ischemic changes as well as mucosal thickiening of the right maxillary sinus. I was wondering is these things were all linked to the astrocytoma and if between all this, perhaps this is the reason the person has lost their ability to ambulate?

[AliNajaCat]

I don't know what "do a patho" means.

If it means, learn all you can about a particular pathophysiological process and relate it to the patient's presentation and nursing needs, then you're off to a good start. Suggest you learn all you can about those tests, how they're done, and what different findings indicate, see how that fits together with what you know (and can find out) about brain physiology and anatomy, and then relate it to your nursing assessment or expected assessment findings from your textbook if this is hypothetical and not related to a real patient.

Do all that and you'll get a good grade in my opinion.