Case report: pseudotumoral brain lesion as the presenting feature of sarcoidosis.
Sarcoidosis rarely presents as an intracranial mass lesion. We report the case of a patient presenting a disturbance of cognitive functions in whom CT and MRI demonstrated a large right fronto-temporal mass lesion with contrast enhancement and surrounding marked oedema, highly suggestive of a brain tumour. The diagnosis of neurosarcoidosis was made after stereotactic biopsy of the lesion.
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Unité d'IRM, CHU de Grenoble, France.
Hoffmann
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Bost
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Francois-Joubert
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Pasquier
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D001706:Biopsy; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed