Nonenhancing spinal subdural metastatic tumor.
We describe a case of a spinal subdural metastatic tumor that became rapidly symptomatic after a minor trauma, as a result of severe cord compression and cord hemorrhage. On MR imaging, the lesion was oval, hyperintense with a dark rim on T2-weighted fast spin-echo images, isointense to the cord on T1-weighted images, and had dark and bright areas on gradient-echo T2*-weighted images, consistent with a hyperacute-to-acute hematoma. The hemorrhagic tumor showed no evidence of contrast enhancement.
Rumboldt
Zoran
Z
Department of Radiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
Lambert
Lara
L
Talan-Hranilovic
Jasna
J
Marjan
Domagoj
D
Sajko
Tomislav
T
D002574:Cervical Vertebrae; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D013355:Subdural Space