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?