title: Subdural mass lesion secondary to sarcoid granuloma MR and CT findings and differential diagnosis.
abstract: A patient with surgical and neuropathologically confirmed subdural sarcoid granuloma was evaluated using angiography, contrast-enhanced CT and MR. MR images were obtained on a superconducting magnet with T1, intermediate and multi-echo T2 weighted sequences. Review of the 2 prior cases of subdural sarcoid granuloma from the literature evaluated with MR confirm the variable nature of signal intensities of the lesion. MR was most useful in anatomically evaluating the lesion and planning neurosurgical intervention but both CT and MR alone, in this case, did not definitely obviate the other differential diagnosis including meningioma en-plaque, lymphoma, or metastasis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Brooks
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Black
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Haikal
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008580:Meningism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D013355:Subdural Space; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed