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can a person die suddenly from brain cyst or brain tumor without any symptoms?
 
In medicine anything is possible. But in 99.99999999999999999 percent of cases there will likely be neurological deficit. If not, hormones may be produced in odd quantities due to the pressure inside the head increasing on a hub of glands or whatever.

I assume that this is a scenario wherein the pt didn't know they had one and just died?
 
I sense this is going to get locked. Looks like you're digging for medical advice
 
Any space occupying lesions in the brain most of the time will have neurologic deficits, the only thing i can think of that can kill immediately without any neurologic symptom is a bullet. :)
 
Posterior brain aneurysm rupture.
 
My wife was diagnosed with Gliobastoma Multiforme (GBM) secondary to a Grade II glioma in Jan. The total mass size prior to surgical resection was 7cm x 7cm x 5 cm at the widest points with significant mass effect and midline shift. She was diagnosed due to a tonic clinic seizure that occurred about 20 minutes after delivering our first child. Prior to this she was having some minor neurological deficits such as word finding difficulties and chronic low grade headaches but these symptoms only became clear in retrospect. If she wasn't so young and healthy she likely would not have compensated so well. While there may almost always be symptoms they may not be specific to a tumour. Consider whether you'd reasonably suspect a tumour in a patient presenting with a history of low grade headaches and in frequent migraines times one year well controlled by Tylenol.
 
All I meant is prior to her Dx while she had relatively frequent headaches they disappeared with a single Tylenol 350mg and were never a cause for a concern. It's only in retrospect that possible symptoms became apparent.
 
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