title: Intracranial subdural sarcoid granuloma. Case report.
abstract: A patient is reported in whom a subdural sarcoid granuloma caused symptoms of an intracranial mass lesion, and disappeared following steroid therapy. Twenty-three previous cases with large intracranial sarcoid granulomas have been documented, a review of these 24 cases leads the authors to conclude that: 1) neither symptoms nor nonhistological diagnostic studies, including computerized tomography, differentiate sarcoid from cerebral neoplasms or other central nervous granulomas; and 2) because sarcoid mass lesions frequently respond well to corticosteroid therapy, surgery should probably be reserved for cases in which there is diagnostic uncertainty, a need for emergency decompression, or lack of response to steroids.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006099:Granuloma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D013355:Subdural Space
chemical_list: D011241:Prednisone