Intracranial metastasis from prostatic adenocarcinoma simulating a meningioma.
We report an unusual case of extra-axial metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate that closely simulated a frontal, parasagittal, dural-based meningioma. Such tumours, which satisfy several criteria for a diagnosis of meningioma, but which have proved instead to be metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate, form the focus of our report.
Lath
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging Department, Nanavati Hospital, Mumbai, India.
Khanna
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Gadewar
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Patkar
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D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008579:Meningioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed