title: [Cystic meningioma simulating glioblastoma in x-ray computed tomography].
abstract: Seven cases of supratentorial meningiomas are reported. CT-Scan showed irregular hypo-hyperdense zones and features of intratumoral cysts. At surgery a well circumscribed tumor has always been found and easily removed "en bloc". In two cases stereotaxic biopsy was performed previously. CT-Scan findings of meningiomas with microcystic structure and/or necrotic areas may mimic a malignant glioma and lead to an incorrect presumptive diagnosis: then, both therapy and prognosis will be very different. It comes that stereotaxic biopsy is mandatory in all suspected cases of cerebral tumors, in the absence of classical angiographic patterns.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neurochirurgie, Hôpital de Novara, Italie.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Panzarasa
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Voci
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Formaggio
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Allegra
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Geuna
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D003560:Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005910:Glioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Les méningiomes kystiques simulateurs de glioblastomes en tomodensitométrie.