Metastases to meningioma.
We describe a patient with metastatic disease to an intracranial meningioma in which MR images showed multiple foci of intense enhancement within a background of moderate enhancement. The discrete foci proved to be metastatic disease from the patient's known breast carcinoma.
Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Lee
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Wallace
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Rewcastle
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Sutherland
D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D008578:Meninges / Q000473:pathology; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D009376:Neoplasms, Hormone-Dependent / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D011960:Receptors, Estrogen / Q000032:analysis
D011960:Receptors, Estrogen