title: Intracranial dural metastatic prostate cancer can mimic meningioma: a report of two cases.
abstract: Cerebral metastases from any malignancy, including prostate carcinoma, may present as a meningeal mass, and differentiating the lesion from a meningioma can be challenging. We report the clinical and neuroimaging features of two patients with dural metastases from prostate carcinoma and discuss differentiation of metastatic lesions from meningioma. In both patients, it appeared that the prostate carcinoma had been successfully treated, and neither patient was found to have any other metastases at the time of diagnosis of the dural lesions.
authors.affiliation: Section of Neuroradiology, Department of Medical Imaging, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan. 920903@mail.chimei.org.tw
authors.forename: Tai-Yuan
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Huey-Jen
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Tai-Ching
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Yu-Kun
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Tsui
authors.forename: Te-Chang
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004388:Dura Mater / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D008579:Meningioma / Q000556:secondary; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*